superweapon
noun
su·per·weap·on
ˌsü-pər-ˈwe-pən 
plural superweapons
: an extremely powerful weapon
President Truman had, as vice president, been kept totally in the dark about the Manhattan Project, so it was a great surprise to him to learn of the atomic superweapon soon to be at his disposal.—
Kelli Peduzzi
Kelli PeduzziThis is a trebuchet, a fearsome, poorly understood superweapon of the Middle Ages …—Evan Hadingham
Evan HadinghamExamples of superweapon in a Sentence
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While Mimas most definitely isn’t a planet-destroying superweapon, nobody could say with any certainty whether an abundance of liquid water was hiding beneath its icy shell.
—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
The Leopard 2s performed well but were hardly invulnerable superweapons.
—Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2024
Paras had just dumped the recipe for a superweapon into a mosh pit.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
While the Allies sent back home a trove of German superweapons during Project Paperclip, including jets and missiles, there’s no record of any version of Die Glocke ever being captured.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2023
The film is about nuclear war, nuclear testing, the devastation of superweapons, the hubris of scientists, and the assurance that this would happen again if nothing changed.
—Kelsey Atherton, Vulture, 26 July 2023
Its basic technologies were derived from Nazi superweapons, in particular von Braun’s V-2 rocket.
—David Axe, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
And is the Kinzhal truly the unstoppable Mach 10 superweapon that Kremlin supporters claim?
—David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
Welcome, as well, Adam Warlock (Will Poulter), the living superweapon as doltish man-child, whose presence here seems more add-to-the-toyline mandated than strictly crucial to the plot, though his own artificial origins mirror those of rogue experiment Rocket.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 28 Apr. 2023
Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
The Leopard 2s performed well but were hardly invulnerable superweapons.
—Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2024
Paras had just dumped the recipe for a superweapon into a mosh pit.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
While the Allies sent back home a trove of German superweapons during Project Paperclip, including jets and missiles, there’s no record of any version of Die Glocke ever being captured.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2023
The film is about nuclear war, nuclear testing, the devastation of superweapons, the hubris of scientists, and the assurance that this would happen again if nothing changed.
—Kelsey Atherton, Vulture, 26 July 2023
Its basic technologies were derived from Nazi superweapons, in particular von Braun’s V-2 rocket.
—David Axe, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
And is the Kinzhal truly the unstoppable Mach 10 superweapon that Kremlin supporters claim?
—David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
Welcome, as well, Adam Warlock (Will Poulter), the living superweapon as doltish man-child, whose presence here seems more add-to-the-toyline mandated than strictly crucial to the plot, though his own artificial origins mirror those of rogue experiment Rocket.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 28 Apr. 2023
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