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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Superfluous.

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  • noun any strain of flu that spreads unusually quickly, is unusually virulent or is unusually unresponsive to treatment

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Examples

  • It's not that the miniseries was bad, but it looked different — and in the first ten minutes, the clear vision I'd had of the initial laboratory where the superflu was accidentally released had been swallowed whole by the considerably less-interesting visuals of the TV series.

    Thoughts On Adaptations emmycantbemeeko 2005

  • 'America's greatest crisis-and the world's, perhaps-deepened overnight as the so-called superflu, known as Tube-Neck in the Midwest and Captain Trips in California, continues to spread.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • The same excellent tale of the walking dude, the chemical warfare weapon called superflu and the confrontation between its survivors has been updated to 1990, so references to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Reagan years, Roger Rabbit and AIDS are unnecessarily forced into the mouths of King's late-'70s characters.

    AvaxHome 2010

  • "The Stand," a four-episode saga that begins airing on May 8 on ABC, opens with a lethal "superflu" virus leaking out of a military lab and cutting a wide swath through Arnette, Texas.

    'The Stand' Doesn't Deliver 2008

  • If Eddie's right about the length of time that has gone by, the plague of this 'superflu' was this past June-sowing.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • The inspiration for writing The Sacred Promise came to me while I was suffering from what might best be described as a case of the superflu.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • I ended up rereading a total of fifteen Parker novels during the course of my superflu, and only the first and third mentioned tigers.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • The inspiration for writing The Sacred Promise came to me while I was suffering from what might best be described as a case of the superflu.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • The inspiration for writing The Sacred Promise came to me while I was suffering from what might best be described as a case of the superflu.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • I ended up rereading a total of fifteen Parker novels during the course of my superflu, and only the first and third mentioned tigers.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

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