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  • noun Alternative spelling of übermensch.

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Examples

  • Here, it seems two ubermensch from a Luftwaffe squadron have washed up on an American beach.

    Superhero Prose Fiction: Secret World Chronicle - Invasion 02 Prologue 1 Blue Tyson 2007

  • Here, it seems two ubermensch from a Luftwaffe squadron have washed up on an American beach.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Blue Tyson 2007

  • Here, it seems two ubermensch from a Luftwaffe squadron have washed up on an American beach.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Blue Tyson 2007

  • All in all, you get a problem similar to the one Walter Kaufmann dealt with in translating Nietzsche, leaving "ubermensch" untranslated, rather than using "superman" because of the pop culture that had accumulated around the latter term.

    Max Headroom James Killus 2007

  • All in all, you get a problem similar to the one Walter Kaufmann dealt with in translating Nietzsche, leaving "ubermensch" untranslated, rather than using "superman" because of the pop culture that had accumulated around the latter term.

    Archive 2007-04-01 James Killus 2007

  • It also found that the "ubermensch" has an average IQ of 103.

    Slashdot: Science Soulskill 2010

  • For these idiotic misanthropic right-wing Judeofascist patsies, perhaps in a conceited benevolent sort of a way which is not at all strange for any 'ubermensch' raised on the mother's milk of the 'chosen peoples' mantra, this pamphleteering in Jerusalem is being rather merciful in permitting a temporary reprieve to their Amelekites.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010

  • Poor endo, down to trying to pretend he is the "ubermensch"!

    Propeller Most Popular Stories hyperbola 2010

  • As an example, the Germans created a kind of ubermensch, a phony science of racialism taught and endorsed by scientists.

    Sigmund, Carl and Alfred 2009

  • I think that kind of ubermensch is physically lithe.

    What's Alan Watching? 2009

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