power struggle
noun
: a fight for control
The power struggle between the two owners destroyed the company.
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However, Mennell argues, another experience of the frontier was being on the winning side of a violent power struggle with Indigenous people.
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 17 May 2025
The events of November 2023 illustrated in the clearest terms just how much a power struggle among a tiny handful of Silicon Valley elites is currently shaping the future of this technology.
—Karen Hao, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
The head of the I.R.S. is ousted in a power struggle between Treasury and Elon Musk.
—David A. Fahrenthold, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
The conflict in Sudan broke out in April 2023 amid a power struggle between General Burhan's SAF and the RSF, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti.
—Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 6 Apr. 2025
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 17 May 2025
The events of November 2023 illustrated in the clearest terms just how much a power struggle among a tiny handful of Silicon Valley elites is currently shaping the future of this technology.
—Karen Hao, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
The head of the I.R.S. is ousted in a power struggle between Treasury and Elon Musk.
—David A. Fahrenthold, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
The conflict in Sudan broke out in April 2023 amid a power struggle between General Burhan's SAF and the RSF, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti.
—Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 6 Apr. 2025
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“Power struggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/power%20struggle. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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