I. adjective
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higher/superior status
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Landowners had superior status.
Mother Superior
superior strength (= greater than someone else's )
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Using his superior strength, Rocky dragged the struggling Larsen another twenty yards back.
superior formal (= good or better quality )
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These speakers offer superior quality sound.
superior/considerable/keen etc intellect
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He combined a formidable intellect with a talent for speaking.
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■ ADVERB
clearly
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In some respects they are clearly superior to normal books, for example they have database cross-referencing facilities ordinary volumes lack.
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On the other side was Macintosh... gorgeous, a bit exotic, and clearly superior to the competition.
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To establish one enema as clearly superior would have required many more patients.
far
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The rigidity and traction of the EBs was far superior to spongy plimsolls.
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Cal looked like the far superior team, just as Stanford did when it was host.
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Hand pinch pleat A hand pinch pleat heading, producing sharp, crisp pleats, is far superior to a taped version.
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For a significant theory, two tests are far superior to one.
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For Adam, his own patch offers far superior surf, surfers and girls.
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But they found grassroots leaders who were far superior to the slobs they had been electing over the years.
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This was a book I had thought far superior to the Reflexions sur la Violence.
morally
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I am so pleased that we have solved the dilemma and we can feel morally superior !
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Jealous, resentful, morally superior , I stayed on with the rest of the proletariat.
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Verse is here the morally superior medium, but at least Boult redeems prose from its worst associations.
technically
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It also required the state to have a technically superior form of organization.
vastly
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Even without him, the force against which Rodrigo now found himself ranged was vastly superior to his own.
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Mariner 9, with its vastly superior vantage point in orbit around Mars, saw it all.
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These three actions are vastly superior to breaking a habit by will-power alone.
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The difference here is that the aesthetic appearance of the output will be vastly superior to that of a word processor.
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Yet the two sets of Lieder are vastly superior as music.
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But their skills are still vastly superior to those of their counterparts elsewhere in the world.
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For two months a vastly superior army refused serious action against the rebels and finally backed them.
■ NOUN
court
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The dotted line in each diagram separates the superior courts from the inferior courts.
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Two weeks later, he appeared in superior court for a preliminary hearing, and he was bound over for trial.
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The justice of the peace did, however, have to justify any decision to commit a case to a superior court .
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Here the answer is just about any error the superior courts wish.
force
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Once again Charles applied superior force , and many of the rebels immediately submitted.
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A new historical epoch is created by the development of superior forces of production by a new social group.
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It was imposed from outside or above and by superior force .
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Finally, he too was forced to submit by Henry's superior forces and greater supply of money.
form
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One possibility is that some superior form of modifiability occurred in the smell-brain, and I shall return to this later.
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Competition and struggle exist, as parts of the mechanism by which organic life evolves to new and superior forms .
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To its ideologies it was a superior form which embodied the best of both socialism and capitalism.
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It also required the state to have a technically superior form of organization.
intelligence
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So marvelous was the migrating instinct of birds that he could only ascribe it to the superior intelligence of their Creator.
knowledge
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The invitation makes no declaration of superior knowledge , it demands no acceptance of a higher authority.
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He has an intense commitment to the reform of collective life, improvement associated with science and the promise of superior knowledge .
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In pursuing this object, they had the formidable weapons of their superior knowledge and direct executive control.
officer
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He was a man who had mastered himself, and although his manner was informal he was manifestly the superior officer .
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So is lying to a superior officer , whatever the cause.
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He had been proved mistaken and had probably suffered a somewhat humiliating rebuff from his superior officer .
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That is no way to address your superior officer .
performance
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This is an easy trap to fall into because humans quite naturally promote people on the basis of superior performance .
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The advantages Digirad claims are also similar: a smaller piece of equipment with superior performance .
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The person who crosses the finish line first in a race has definitely had the most superior performance that day.
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Points could be allowed for each quality, and the most superior performance could be determined.
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Industrial production managers with a proven record of superior performance may advance to plant manager or vice president for manufacturing.
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A concave underwater shape will give superior performance when you progress to an intermediate level.
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But there were some superior performances out there.
position
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Bureaucracies are often credited with a monopoly of expertise which place them in a superior position to lay politicians.
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Generally, they are intolerant of their wives functioning in a superior position .
product
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Coppelia ice-cream, a superior product , is served only in special parlours.
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Even a superior product is not enough to carry a company very long these days.
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The weapons were therefore a superior product at the forefront of developments in alloying.
quality
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An upmarket, superior quality twit.
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Rural Metro expands by offering superior quality for a lower price.
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Antonietta had given her a blouse which, she noticed with interest, was of superior quality to her own.
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In these later blind tests, employees identified the Hanes Sparta garments as being oi superior quality .
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The superior quality of this mosaic -like many mosaics in when compared with those in Britain, is self-evident.
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Maybe they come for our superior quality of life.
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These fall into the category of superior quality in the lens and the shutter operation.
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But they weren't the same superior quality as those Mr Watson Taylor brought because they wore out.
skill
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They continue to marvel at his 6-foot-5 build, amazing speed and quickness and superior skills .
status
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In feudal society, a superior status was accorded to the land-owning aristocracy and gentry.
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Lewis watched, aware of his superior status , leaving only the less likely customers to Tim.
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It served above all to denote the superior status of chiefs against commoners.
strength
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The defendant, because of his superior strength is able without much force to overcome her.
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She was dimly conscious of an overpowering contrast, her female vulnerability against iron-hard male muscle and superior strength .
way
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Time and again, efforts to demonstrate a superior way of doing things backfired because some crucial element in the situation had been overlooked.
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You have little chance of consistently interpreting information in a superior way .
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But Fred was just a steward, and I had to pretend in a superior way to condescend to him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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superior craftsmanship
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a superior academic record
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a superior attitude
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Are you questioning the orders of a superior officer?
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Our aim is to provide our clients with a superior service at all times.
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She always acts so superior to everyone else.
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Style, comfort and superior cuisine are the most important characteristics of a good hotel.
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The company has a reputation for superior technology and customer loyalty.
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They claimed that a vegetarian diet was superior to a meat diet.
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Even without him, the force against which Rodrigo now found himself ranged was vastly superior to his own.
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For a significant theory, two tests are far superior to one.
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Instead, I laugh, a throaty, superior laugh.
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It seems unlikely that they will jeopardise their superior circumstances by combining in an alliance with Third World workers against capital.
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Lightbown's critical grasp of the bibliography and reading of the documents are superior to Bertelli's.
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The first was a genuine belief that the graphical interface was superior .
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We think that our own race is incomparably superior to any other....
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
immediate
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Restoring a damaged relationship with a superior Your most important working relationship is with your immediate superior.
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Can teachers be disciplined for publicly criticizing their immediate superiors ?
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The managers generally failed to take advantage of a potentially valuable resource, their immediate superiors .
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Clint Eastwood is usually threatened with dismissal in his detective movies, sometimes because his immediate superior is on the take.
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He failed to follow a direct order from his superior .
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Its chief selling point is the undoubted superiority of its after-sales service.
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The report he submitted to his superiors accurately reflected the poor morale of the workers.
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Women who have been harassed by male superiors often don't complain because they are afraid of losing their jobs.
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Your most important working relationship is with your immediate superior .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As abbot of Bec, Anselm had owed obedience to several superiors whose permission he had sought before accepting the archbishopric.
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Like the new managers, most superiors emphasized that the manager was the one with formal authority and decision-making responsibility.
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Nor did Bo ever meet his superior , who passed him messages through an intermediary.
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Not until other assigned friars lost courage did his superiors send Serra with his student and confidant Francisco Palou to the work.
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Some superiors were more zealous than others to enforce the disciplinary code.
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The men shouted at superiors, damn near grew violent.
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The sergeant, the proverbial piggy-in-the-middle, was the ready scapegoat for both juniors and superiors.
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The uniformed cops and a couple of detectives were watching their superiors slug it out.