as in almighty
having unlimited power or authority
that country's monarch was never an all-powerful ruler, but one who shared power with a parliament
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Recent Examples of all-powerful
Balan’s character in Kahaani, Vidya Bagchi, is represented as the female hero who is portrayed, in parallel, as the all-powerful Goddess Durga of the Hindu pantheon.
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Sunil Sadarangani, Deadline, 20 May 2025
Though an older generation of moguls was fading—Diller glimpses a once all-powerful Warner brother emerging from a bathroom with a stain on his pants—the new generation was even crazier.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Mission: Impossible film sees Tom Cruise dangling from a biplane and going underwater to defeat an all-powerful AI.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 May 2025
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.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
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Sunil Sadarangani, Deadline, 20 May 2025
Though an older generation of moguls was fading—Diller glimpses a once all-powerful Warner brother emerging from a bathroom with a stain on his pants—the new generation was even crazier.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Mission: Impossible film sees Tom Cruise dangling from a biplane and going underwater to defeat an all-powerful AI.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 May 2025
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.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for all-powerful
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This open-air display of some of humanity’s oldest works is being slowly erased by industrial pollution from a nearby gas plant, according to scientific studies that have been swept up in an almighty clash of competing ambitions for the region’s future.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
28 May 2025
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Liverpool and Spurs both completed almighty comebacks that campaign.—
Eduardo Tansley,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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Meanwhile, Undertaker plays the omnipotent executioner who can’t quite get Michaels to the chopping block.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
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In subsequent retcons and embellishments over the years, before the Big Bang occurred for the seventh round, Galan was infused with the glowing omnipotent essence of the Sentience of the Cosmos to become the immortal being Galactus.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2025
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Insurance firms, development banks, sovereign wealth funds, and remittances are also sources that could be tapped to finance Africa’s infrastructure, the bank said in its report.—
Alexander Onukwue,
semafor.com,
5 June 2025
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Loyalists’ fate after the American Revolution The Treaty of Paris recognized the U.S. as a sovereign nation and addressed a variety of other issues that remained to be resolved in the war’s aftermath.—
Greg Daugherty,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 June 2025
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“All-powerful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/all-powerful. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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