all-powerful
adjective
all-pow·er·ful
ˈȯl-ˈpau̇(-ə)r-fəl 
: having complete or sole power
an all-powerful leader
Examples of all-powerful in a Sentence
that country's monarch was never an all-powerful ruler, but one who shared power with a parliament
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Whether the Fed as the all-powerful entity capable of propping up the economy is true or not, since when are bailouts and central planning of monetary aggregates part of the free-market playbook?
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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Excommunicated from his assassin’s guild and with a $14 million bounty on his head, courtesy of the all-powerful High Table, John gets into nasty blade-throwing brawls and even rides a horse through New York to escape a city full of secret killers.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 June 2025
The eternal political problems of legitimacy, accountability, and succession would be solved by a secret board with the power to select and recall the otherwise all-powerful C.E.O. of each sovereign corporation, or SovCorp.
—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Hoping for everything to go right once in a while underneath an all-powerful general manager is not a recipe for long-term success.
—Jerry Beach, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Excommunicated from his assassin’s guild and with a $14 million bounty on his head, courtesy of the all-powerful High Table, John gets into nasty blade-throwing brawls and even rides a horse through New York to escape a city full of secret killers.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 June 2025
The eternal political problems of legitimacy, accountability, and succession would be solved by a secret board with the power to select and recall the otherwise all-powerful C.E.O. of each sovereign corporation, or SovCorp.
—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Hoping for everything to go right once in a while underneath an all-powerful general manager is not a recipe for long-term success.
—Jerry Beach, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for all-powerful
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“All-powerful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all-powerful. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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