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- noun Plural form of
superstructure .
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Examples
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It's short for "superstructures," new and impromptu social alliances that players are encouraged to form in order to address the five threats.
RJ Eskow: It's 2019 And Humanity's In Danger. Meet Me There. 2008
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We live among rapidly deteriorating, energy-converting superstructures.
Josh Tickell: For Earth Day: The Portent of Things to Come Josh Tickell 2011
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In pictures: Frédéric Chaubin's subversive Soviet superstructures
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The bigger question for the United States and the international community is "whether they can establish the security and economic superstructures necessary to improve governance in Afghanistan," writes Vanda Felbab-Brown of Brookings Institution.
Jayshree Bajoria: Is Peace With the Taliban Possible? Jayshree Bajoria 2012
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In pictures: Frédéric Chaubin's subversive Soviet superstructures
Out of Africa: National Archives seeks public help to identify empire-era pics 2011
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We live among rapidly deteriorating, energy-converting superstructures.
Josh Tickell: For Earth Day: The Portent of Things to Come Josh Tickell 2011
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Academic consortia tend to be superstructures, floating above member universities without really embedding them in a tighter network.
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I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened.
Jan Herman: Greenwald to Krugman to Orwell Jan Herman 2010
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I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened.
Jan Herman: Greenwald to Krugman to Orwell Jan Herman 2010
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Behind the superstructures, beyond the malls, some 40% of Hong Kong is protected with public parks.
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