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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One of India's mightiest cricketers, worshipped by a billion people who has been one of only a select few to have lifted a World Cup title for his all-powerful cricket country, looked totally dejected with this blockbuster series slipping away.
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Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Trump likes to cast himself as an all-powerful master of the universe, a titan who can bend reality to his whims.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 5 May 2025
In Green Lantern, Reynolds portrayed Hal Jordan, a test pilot who is granted superpowers and joins an intergalactic police force via an all-powerful green ring that grants him his powers.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
In this dangerous setting, the United States will need to rediscover diplomacy in its classical form—not as a bag carrier for an all-powerful military or as a purveyor of global norms, but as a hard-nosed instrument of strategy.
—A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
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Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Trump likes to cast himself as an all-powerful master of the universe, a titan who can bend reality to his whims.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 5 May 2025
In Green Lantern, Reynolds portrayed Hal Jordan, a test pilot who is granted superpowers and joins an intergalactic police force via an all-powerful green ring that grants him his powers.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
In this dangerous setting, the United States will need to rediscover diplomacy in its classical form—not as a bag carrier for an all-powerful military or as a purveyor of global norms, but as a hard-nosed instrument of strategy.
—A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 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 22 May. 2025.
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