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great power

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Recent Examples of great power The South Caucasus rarely commands attention until war breaks out, pipelines are threatened, or a great power expands its footprint. — Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026 With great power comes great responsibility, and great responsibility sounds exhausting! — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026 By contrast, the leaders of the United States, both Democrats and Republicans, have not worked out an equally comprehensive long-term strategy for managing the return of China as a great power. — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 15 May 2026 Most Americans, however, were not touched by the shadow of great power games or the political and legal struggles playing out on Capitol Hill. — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for great power

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George Washington knew his forces could not win the American Revolutionary War without some measure of sea power.

— Christopher Magra, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
Iran’s conventional navy warships might be largely destroyed, but analysts say that’s never where its true sea power lay.

— Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 8 May 2026

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As nations everywhere compete to increase drone arsenals and build shields with counter-drone technology to protect their forces on earth, major world powers are battling to project power in space both to guard assets and threaten adversaries.

— Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, reached in 2015 between Iran and world powers including the United States, was designed to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

— Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 15 June 2026

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From impoverishment to global superpower, China’s supremacy happened at a breakneck speed thanks to the visionary strategy of the man who took power in 1978.

— Rund Abdelfatah, NPR, 23 July 2026
The critical darling chronicles a loner actor named Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) whose secret superpowers threaten to derail the biggest role of his career.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 July 2026

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