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Recent Examples of great power
The incidents in Taiwan, the Baltic Sea and elsewhere come as great power competition intensifies between the U.S. and China.
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John Calabrese, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2025
Other great powers will have their territorial goals and quarrels and this does not normally concern you.
—Frank Lavin, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
Buffalo Bills: Jacob Bayer, C, Arkansas State A four-year starter and two-time All-Sun Belt center who made stops at Lamar and Arkansas State, Bayer plays with great power and punch in the run game.
—Nick Baumgardner, New York Times, 2 May 2025
But, as the cliché goes, with great power comes great responsibility.
—Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
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John Calabrese, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2025
Other great powers will have their territorial goals and quarrels and this does not normally concern you.
—Frank Lavin, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
Buffalo Bills: Jacob Bayer, C, Arkansas State A four-year starter and two-time All-Sun Belt center who made stops at Lamar and Arkansas State, Bayer plays with great power and punch in the run game.
—Nick Baumgardner, New York Times, 2 May 2025
But, as the cliché goes, with great power comes great responsibility.
—Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 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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They were promised but never granted their own nation by world powers after World War I and have since launched various rebellions against governments that have sought to suppress their cultural identity.—
Erika Solomon,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
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The explosions in Amritsar - the first heard there in the three-day-old conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbors - could mark a further expansion in the hostilities that have alarmed world powers.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
11 May 2025
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But Claude is an emotional force, and that winds up being his superpower by the end of the first season.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
23 May 2025
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Inexperience is a superpower Northeastern University, May 11 The class of 2025 is entering a daunting job market.—
Maria Gracia Santillana Linares,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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“Great power.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20power. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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