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  • noun Plural form of supremacy.

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Examples

  • I looked closely for any sign of reaction from Wakata and Lonchakov, astronaut representatives of the agencies with true supremacies in the near future in cargo launch and crew launch, respectively.

    Today's Video: Presidential Phone Call to the ISS - NASA Watch 2009

  • Two other writers share the credit, but the movie implodes bearing the burden of the same smart-aleck Gilroy trademarks as Michael Clayton, Duplicity and all those incomprehensible Bourne identities, supremacies and ultimatums: glam stars spouting corny dialogue, current events shrouded in enough violence and sex to keep the audience awake and labored plot twists hammered to death by a storm of clichés.

    Is That Mickey Rourke or Russell Crowe? Are Newspapers Still Sexy? Who Cares! 2009

  • Two other writers share the credit, but the movie implodes bearing the burden of the same smart-aleck Gilroy trademarks as Michael Clayton, Duplicity and all those incomprehensible Bourne identities, supremacies and ultimatums: glam stars spouting corny dialogue, current events shrouded in enough violence and sex to keep the audience awake and labored plot twists hammered to death by a storm of clichés.

    Is That Mickey Rourke or Russell Crowe? Are Newspapers Still Sexy? Who Cares! 2009

  • The causes of today's discontent-economic sluggishness, a vague sense of abandoned standards and lost supremacies -- are less galvanizing because they are less susceptible to summation in pithy slogans like "stop the war" and "law and order."

    That Man On Horseback 2008

  • Consider the past; such great changes of political supremacies.

    The Meditations 2004

  • In several countries they have several churches, several supremacies, several infallibleships: a council is the church, and supreme and infallible, in France; and the pope is the same in Italy.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • It was no fluke that three important Republican supremacies coincided with and helped generate the Gilded Age, the Roaring Twenties and the Reagan-Bush years.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • It was no fluke that three important Republican supremacies coincided with and helped generate the Gilded Age, the Roaring Twenties and the Reagan-Bush years.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • It was ugly, questionable, suspicious, evidently mischievous, -- nay, I will allow myself to call it devilish; for this was the new war-fiend, destined, along with others of the same breed, to annihilate whole navies and batter down old supremacies.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

  • Ryder is, I think, the special messenger of the sea's beauty, the confidant of its majesties, its hauteurs, its supremacies; for he was born within range of the sea and all its legends have hovered with him continually.

    Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

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