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  • noun A person with remarkable talents or abilities; a superman or superwoman.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ person

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Examples

  • It takes a superperson to fly around the world at a moment's notice; be on deadline; perform on cue; have your hours dictated by the unfolding events of the day or night.

    CNN's Candy Crowley: Not My Role To Judge Who The Bigger Liar Is 2009

  • We, the peoples who were objects of imperialist expansionism, for ever the infantile dwarfs who required the benign or brutal patronage of the white superperson, in earlier times had to be liberated form the state of noble savagery.

    Editorial 2001

  • Even the superperson resulting from such a genetic break-through could still run headlong into the buzz saw of words heard by so many laid-off mid-level executives who have recently hit the streets:

    30 DAYS TO A GOOD JOB HAL GIESEKING PAUL PLAWIN 1994

  • Even the superperson resulting from such a genetic break-through could still run headlong into the buzz saw of words heard by so many laid-off mid-level executives who have recently hit the streets:

    30 DAYS TO A GOOD JOB HAL GIESEKING PAUL PLAWIN 1994

  • We, the peoples who were objects of imperialist expansionism, for ever the infantile dwarfs who required the benign or brutal patronage of the white superperson, in earlier times had to be liberated form the state of noble savagery.

    RACISM, APARTHEID AND A NEW WORLD ORDER 1986

  • We, the peoples who were objects of imperialist expansionism, for ever the infantile dwarfs who required the benign or brutal patronage of the white superperson, in earlier times had to be liberated form the state of noble savagery.

    RACISM, APARTHEID AND A NEW WORLD ORDER 1986

  • We, the peoples who were objects of imperialist expansionism, for ever the infantile dwarfs who required the benign or brutal patronage of the white superperson, in earlier times had to be liberated form the state of noble savagery.

    OLIVER TAMBO 1980

  • We, the peoples who were objects of imperialist expansionism, for ever the infantile dwarfs who required the benign or brutal patronage of the white superperson, in earlier times had to be liberated form the state of noble savagery.

    OLIVER TAMBO AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID 1980

  • We, the peoples who were objects of imperialist expansionism, for ever the infantile dwarfs who required the benign or brutal patronage of the white superperson, in earlier times had to be liberated form the state of noble savagery.

    'The Regeneration of Africa' 1906

  • We, the peoples who were objects of imperialist expansionism, for ever the infantile dwarfs who required the benign or brutal patronage of the white superperson, in earlier times had to be liberated form the state of noble savagery.

    'The Regeneration of Africa' 1906

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