noun
Etymology
Origin of superstate
Example Sentences
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“I trust that citizens can themselves decide whether they want to consume tobacco products or not, and there is no need for a superstate that regulates the sector more strongly,” he said.
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2022
From Orwell’s evocation of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania, new words entered the language: doublethink, thoughtcrime, newspeak and Big Brother.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2019
In 1984, a superstate wields extreme control over the people and persecutes any form of independent thought.
From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2017
But none of these leaders thought that they were building—or wanted to build—a cosmopolitan superstate, the aspiration of many Europeans today.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2016
As regards your teaching work: the Guardian has already advised you to stress in your talks the idea of a world superstate, and the concept of the Oneness of Mankind underlying it.
From Compilation on Peace by Universal House of Justice
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