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Recent Examples of great power
But with great power comes great responsibility for maintenance, security and management.
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Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Russia is our enemy and will be for at least as long as Putin's dictatorship endures (and the Russian people continue to succumb to nostalgia for great power status and empire).
—Bradley Gitz, arkansasonline.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Pelosi still holds great power in the Democratic Party after being a large player in former President Joe Biden stepping down last year, with much of the party still holding great respect for her leadership.
—Lauren Green, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Mar. 2025
Saudi officials, in common with their counterparts in the other Gulf states, have long sought to avoid taking sides in the emerging era of great power competition and strategic rivalry.
—Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2025
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Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Russia is our enemy and will be for at least as long as Putin's dictatorship endures (and the Russian people continue to succumb to nostalgia for great power status and empire).
—Bradley Gitz, arkansasonline.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Pelosi still holds great power in the Democratic Party after being a large player in former President Joe Biden stepping down last year, with much of the party still holding great respect for her leadership.
—Lauren Green, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Mar. 2025
Saudi officials, in common with their counterparts in the other Gulf states, have long sought to avoid taking sides in the emerging era of great power competition and strategic rivalry.
—Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for great power
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In Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 campaign to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, the United States and its coalition allies unleashed massive land, air, and sea power.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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This cooperation makes sense in purely military terms for Russia, a mutually beneficial project of sea power projection.—
Colin Flint,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 2025
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Trump, in his first term, unilaterally withdrew from Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers in 2018, setting off years of recriminations and negotiations that failed to restore the accord that drastically limited Tehran’s enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.—
Matthew Lee and Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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In the decades since, Iran-U.S. relations have see-sawed between enmity and grudging diplomacy, with relations peaking when Tehran made the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers before Trump withdrew from the deal, sparking more tensions in the Mideast that persist today.—
Bradford Betz,
FOXNews.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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While the conflict became a Cold War superpower showdown, its main participants were Vietnamese who fought and died for their respective ideas of sovereignty.—
Made by History,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025
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The kind of thinking that built empires and assembly lines—that beautifully predictable, step-by-step, linear logic—is starting to look less like a superpower and more like running Windows 95 in a world demanding quantum leaps.—
Lee Salisbury,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Great power.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20power. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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