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1910 G. P. Serviss Round Year with Stars v. 123 His [sc. Jupiter's] light is calm, steady, insistent, commanding. He does not look like a star, but rather a superstar.

1911 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 11 Nov. 306/3 If a thousand stars were lumped together, their individual motions might cancel, and the resultant superstar might be at rest.

1929 S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic iv. 58 He..meditated..upon sun and moon, whose counter-changes and performances in the sky he followed with deep amaze. These super-stars of heaven never ceased to vary in effects.

1964 New Scientist 13 Aug. 393/3 The objects known variously as superstars, quasars, quasi-stellar objects or (for short) QSO's continue to cause intense interest among astronomers.

2002 M. J. Rees in M. Gilfanov et al. Lighthouses Universe 346 As the gas evolves..to a state of higher densities and more violent internal dissipation, radiation pressure would..puff it up into a single superstar.

1913 ‘An Actress’ True Ophelia 237 Alas! often his scenes and characters are cut down without any more reason than to super-star a ‘well-known’ London or American ‘name.’]

1914 Manitoba (Winnipeg) Free Press 13 June (Special section) 4/4 Most productions in the operatic field fail, because there are super-stars.

1922 Caduceus of Kappa Sigma Feb. 275 Picking any sort of an all-American team was a hazardous undertaking for sport writers in 1921. All bewailed the difficulty of picking eleven men out of 300 or more superstars.

1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son 130 You wouldn't expect a couple of cinema super-stars to be running away from publicity.

1969 N. Cohn Pop from Beginning xx. 185 He became a superstar but he wasn't happy.

1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. c 14 (advt.) Hertz, the superstar in the Rent-A-Car industry has an immediate vacancy.

2004 Touch Mar. 20/1 The 46th Annual Grammy Awards, where sexy, scandalous superstars compete for a moment of glamour on the red carpet.

1928 Carbondale (Illinois) Free Press 13 Sept. 2/5 Francis X. Bushman, who a dozen years ago achieved super-stardom, later sank into comparative obscurity.

1952 ‘N. Bell’ One of Best 175 Lorrie sailed yesterday in the Queen Elizabeth for New York en route for Hollywood and, we hope, a great success as Rhoda in The Black Tulip and thereafter super stardom.

1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Apr. 479/2 Hollywood exacts its price for superstardom.

2007 W. C. Rich Afr. Amer. Perspectives on Polit. Sci. i. iii. 48 The names of superstars always appear on nationwide search lists for distinguished professorships and titled chairs. Their best graduate students are considered extensions of superstardom and are preferred by research universities.