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The phrase "a very superior" is not correct in standard English usage.
It is typically used to describe something that is significantly better than something else, but the word "superior" already implies a high degree of quality, making "very" redundant.
Example: "This model is superior to the previous one in terms of performance."
Alternatives: "much better" or "far superior".
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They develop a very superior electric steel.
The elevator was favored by her Pekingese, "a very superior dog," the Journal said.
The next day's Times offered a "very superior extra size mansion," on Murray Hill.
"A very superior woman, a little incumbent by virtue," he wrote to his friend Thomas Moore.
Well, the truth is that Allan was a very superior person, great-souled.
"We feel we've got a very superior offer already on the table," he said.
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FROM outside, the huge silver doughnut looks like a flight of vain architectural fancy, or perhaps a racetrack for very superior greyhounds.
Nonetheless, and in the manner of most snotty young adults, young Chimamanda went through a phase of being "very superior" to her mother.
She was an articulate woman of very superior intelligence and extensive symptomatology who cut, burned, hit, abraded and scalded herself' (Burnham, 1969: 225).
Service moves at a pace to suit the time-pressed City luncher, though my guest Dan did wonder whether they would travel this far – according to him most of them barely have time to grab a takeaway from the apparently very superior Coco di Mama group.
Her two friends, the Butler girls, very superior Bostonians, with a tendency to tuberculosis, always talk about their ill health.
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