all-powerful
adjective
all-pow·er·ful
ˈȯl-ˈpau̇(-ə)r-fəl 
: having complete or sole power
an all-powerful leader
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Google and Microsoft pitch their AI helpers as knowing your communications, personal habits and what’s happening in the world to act as all-powerful assistants.
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Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
Jemma Redgrave reprises her role as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and Neil Patrick Harris will play the Toymaker, an all-powerful enemy last seen in 1966.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
Adanson is a scientist, convinced that human reason is all-powerful.
—Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
Chaos lurks around every corner, from his confused and uncooperative cast and crew to interference from the then all-powerful censorship authorities.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
The idea that Jews are dangerous and all-powerful is a lie.
—Sacha Baron Cohen, Time, 26 Aug. 2023
Nobody has ever answered, at least to everybody’s satisfaction, the essential question raised in the Book of Job: Why would an all-powerful, all-loving God allow evil to exist in the first place?
—Louis Bayard, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
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Mental illumination can be all-powerful!
—USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
The quest to create all-powerful AIs just might be the 21st century’s version of the Manhattan Project, a queasy parallel that hasn’t escaped the attention of Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan, either.
—WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
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Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
Jemma Redgrave reprises her role as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and Neil Patrick Harris will play the Toymaker, an all-powerful enemy last seen in 1966.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
Adanson is a scientist, convinced that human reason is all-powerful.
—Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
Chaos lurks around every corner, from his confused and uncooperative cast and crew to interference from the then all-powerful censorship authorities.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
The idea that Jews are dangerous and all-powerful is a lie.
—Sacha Baron Cohen, Time, 26 Aug. 2023
Nobody has ever answered, at least to everybody’s satisfaction, the essential question raised in the Book of Job: Why would an all-powerful, all-loving God allow evil to exist in the first place?
—Louis Bayard, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
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Mental illumination can be all-powerful!
—USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
The quest to create all-powerful AIs just might be the 21st century’s version of the Manhattan Project, a queasy parallel that hasn’t escaped the attention of Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan, either.
—WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
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First Known Use
1597, in the meaning defined above
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all-powerful
adjective
all-pow·er·ful
ˈȯl-ˈpau̇(-ə)r-fəl
: having complete power
an all-powerful leader
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