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Recent Examples of great power
But for the strategic peninsula, being at the nexus of great power competition is nothing new.
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Scott Neuman, NPR, 30 Apr. 2025
Spoiler: Even Superheroes Get Stuck In Spreadsheets With great power comes great responsibility (and a few snags).
—Andrew Siemer, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
The Balkan states watched with interest as the other great powers did very little.
—Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
But with great power comes great responsibility, and not everyone is worthy of the grill master title.
—Joe Difazio, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
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Scott Neuman, NPR, 30 Apr. 2025
Spoiler: Even Superheroes Get Stuck In Spreadsheets With great power comes great responsibility (and a few snags).
—Andrew Siemer, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
The Balkan states watched with interest as the other great powers did very little.
—Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
But with great power comes great responsibility, and not everyone is worthy of the grill master title.
—Joe Difazio, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for great power
Noun
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In Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 campaign to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, the United States and its coalition allies unleashed massive land, air, and sea power.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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This cooperation makes sense in purely military terms for Russia, a mutually beneficial project of sea power projection.—
Colin Flint,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Major world powers, including in Europe, have agreed to prevent Russia from selling oil into global markets for more than $60 per barrel.—
Jeanna Smialek,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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But experts fear his radical turn from decades of trade practices and his erratic policy announcements will upend the balance of world power and leave the U.S. in a weakened position.—
Jenny Jarvie,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
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That made Natalia feel special, like speaking another language was a superpower instead of a disability.—
Megan Greenwell,
Rolling Stone,
5 June 2025
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Liberation Weekend’s rejection of the gender binary went hand-in-hand with its refusal to be boxed in by rigid genre labels, harnessing sonic diversity as a superpower.—
Grace Robins-Somerville,
Pitchfork,
4 June 2025
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“Great power.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20power. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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