Greatest and Special

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Greatest adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

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Special and greatest are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Special" instead an adjective "Greatest".

Special adjective - Being the one or ones of a class with no other members.

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Greatest and special are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Greatest" instead an adjective "Special".

A rare example of this done by the good guys happens in the new Mortal Kombat, as some of Earthrealm's greatest heroes attack Sindel one at a time without using their special abilities, only to be easily dispatched, many of them killed, just to prove how tough she is.

Source: Mook Chivalry
But he's denied being the world's greatest hero multiple times, usually remarking that The Real Heroes are the people who work to change the world every day who have no special powers.

Source: Humble Hero
When one asks why special relativity was useful in 1905, or Democritus' concept of atomism in classical Greece, one finds that the greatest practical results came decades or even centuries later.

Source: For Science!

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