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I think the empire was used as the most recent reference.
The term superpower might have been coined for them or by them but its only a word. We have to look past what they or their people tell us about them being a 'superpower' and get to the truth whatever that is even if it's that they are in fact the greatest superpower. There is a lot of we are the greatsest and no-one can stand against us wishful proclamtions from them and we have to remember that is what they are brought up believing.
Unlike other previous superpowers America has yet to show they are. Until they do they are just one of the big players to me. But each to their own.

Also all the other superpowers fell due to other powers challenging them in war whether right or wrong.

I would hope that we have moved beyond this pattern or else the world is going to be in for more big troubles in the next few decades.