world power
noun
: a political unit (such as a nation or state) powerful enough to affect the entire world by its influence or actions
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday on X that world powers need to keep pressuring Russia about the conflict.
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Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 3 Dec. 2025
Those attacks began after President Trump, in his first term in office, unilaterally withdrew from Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
—CBS News, 16 Nov. 2025
For decades, Chinese nationalists decried the inability of their leadership to stand up to other world powers.
—Kerry Brown, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
The model is South Korea, which within a few decades managed to build domestically a strong production sector and then emerged from an unknown country to a film, series and music world power.
—Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
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Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 3 Dec. 2025
Those attacks began after President Trump, in his first term in office, unilaterally withdrew from Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
—CBS News, 16 Nov. 2025
For decades, Chinese nationalists decried the inability of their leadership to stand up to other world powers.
—Kerry Brown, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
The model is South Korea, which within a few decades managed to build domestically a strong production sector and then emerged from an unknown country to a film, series and music world power.
—Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for world power
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“World power.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/world%20power. Accessed 13 Dec. 2025.
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