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
Without the need to glorify all-powerful rulers, the construction of new buildings and monuments stopped.
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Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
Streep starred as Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor-in-chief of the fictional Runway magazine.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 22 May 2025
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.
—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
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Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
Streep starred as Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor-in-chief of the fictional Runway magazine.
—Angelique Jackson, Variety, 22 May 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for all-powerful
Adjective
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Alongside impossibly strong grannies, Dana must also contend with a dangerous prisoner now enjoying some posthumous freedom and a gun-toting drug dynasty with one almighty grudge.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
10 June 2025
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Which leaves it as one of the only periods of recorded music where many classic albums were never released on vinyl, with major record labels opting instead for now antiquated formats like mini disc or cassettes alongside the almighty CD.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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To interest inward-looking Americans in the outside world, Washington needs to conjure a single omnipotent villain.—
Michael Kimmage,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Jan. 2024
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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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This reminds me that most of my conversations at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos were spent discussing countries’ needs for a disconnected, sovereign AI cloud.—
Patrick Moorhead,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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That, potentially, is as much of a weakness, longer term, as a shortage of sovereign AI computing infrastructure.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
18 June 2025
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“All-powerful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/all-powerful. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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