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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Having once held sway over New York’s all-powerful Democratic Party, Koch had lost the support of all but the most conservative Democratic clubs in Queens and Staten Island.
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Jonathan Mahler, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2025
The last two Mission: Impossible films have shown Tom Cruise & Co. going full analog to defeat the Entity, an all-powerful AI engine that has gamed out the future and decided humans must go.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 July 2025
The series centers on Maggie, an assistant within Britain’s intelligence agency The Circus, who discovers that Control – the agency’s all-powerful leader – has mysteriously vanished.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 July 2025
Despite their claims to the contrary, Big Tech is not all-powerful.
—Theresa Payton, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 July 2025
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Jonathan Mahler, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2025
The last two Mission: Impossible films have shown Tom Cruise & Co. going full analog to defeat the Entity, an all-powerful AI engine that has gamed out the future and decided humans must go.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 July 2025
The series centers on Maggie, an assistant within Britain’s intelligence agency The Circus, who discovers that Control – the agency’s all-powerful leader – has mysteriously vanished.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 July 2025
Despite their claims to the contrary, Big Tech is not all-powerful.
—Theresa Payton, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 July 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 20 Aug. 2025.
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