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- noun An extremely powerful
weapon .
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Examples
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One thing I am going to mention - the cosmic superweapon is entrusted to a beautiful woman ... which adds to her mystery and complicates her marriage quite a bit.
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They are killing more of us with firebombing than they are with this one superweapon.
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The Christian Science Monitor cites experts saying that Stuxnet "can be classified as a cyber superweapon," with some suggesting that it may have been designed to shut down Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant or another facility in that country.
Larry Magid: Experts: 'State-sponsored' Worm Aimed at Power Plants & Gas-Pipelines Larry Magid 2010
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The Christian Science Monitor cites experts saying that Stuxnet "can be classified as a cyber superweapon," with some suggesting that it may have been designed to shut down Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant or another facility in that country.
Larry Magid: Experts: 'State-sponsored' Worm Aimed at Power Plants & Gas-Pipelines Larry Magid 2010
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She argued there were no secrecy provisions in the islands' jurisdiction that prevent information being obtained by the tax information authority which assists in international tax matters Luxembourg is accused by the TJN of being the "death star" superweapon in the world of tax havens because of its aggressive defence of financial secrecy and its resistance to EU efforts to close tax loopholes.
Tax havens: G20 has failed to crack down, says campaign group 2011
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You would think, given the genre (spy-fi) and the introduction of a nifty skiffy superweapon, that I'd be all over this one.
April 23rd, 2010 daj42 2010
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If countries have to work together and have to work with companies from other countries, then it makes it nigh impossible – certainly undesireable – for anybody to work on an orbital superweapon.
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You would think, given the genre (spy-fi) and the introduction of a nifty skiffy superweapon, that I'd be all over this one.
Review of The Losers (2010) daj42 2010
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At times you are watching with eyes-widening horrified fascination for what Doc Smith topping superweapon that he can come up with next.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Cormac - 5 Line War Blue Tyson 2008
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Once again I could feel the perspiration shooting out of the palms of my hands like some sort of superhero's acidic superweapon.
Archive 2008-04-01 The Nag 2008
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