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Super Bowl

American  
[soo-per bohl] / ˈsu pər ˌboʊl /
Trademark.

  1. the annual NFL championship football game between the best team of the National Football Conference and that of the American Football Conference.

Super Bowl British  

noun

  1. American football the main championship game of the sport, held annually in January between the champions of the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Super Bowl Cultural  

  1. The championship game of the National Football League, held each year in January or February.

Etymology

Origin of Super Bowl

First recorded in 1965–70

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OpenAI seems to be taking a different approach than Anthropic, which released a Super Bowl commercial declaring “Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

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From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

The Masters is the favorite week of golf enthusiasts and, similar to the Super Bowl, attracts casual fans as well.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Hall of Fame defensive tackle Steve McMichael, a key member of the Super Bowl XX champion Chicago Bears, has been diagnosed posthumously with Stage 3 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the Concussion & CTE Foundation said Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Did you ever hear the statistic about Super Bowl night?

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

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