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While damage assessments are ongoing, what is clear is that Ukraine has once again redefined modern warfare with cheap drones and exceptional spy craft, dealing a considerable blow to a great power.
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Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2025
Now, picture a great power—China—with a military to rival the US and fusion reactors that provide virtually unlimited energy.
—Wal Van Lierop, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Between 1500 and 1800, there was hardly a year when great powers weren’t enmeshed in some kind of war.
—Bryan Walsh, Vox, 26 May 2025
The Trump administration’s focus on Greenland – and China’s in recent years – come amid increasing focus on the Arctic as an arena for rivalry between the world’s great powers.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 6 May 2025
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Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2025
Now, picture a great power—China—with a military to rival the US and fusion reactors that provide virtually unlimited energy.
—Wal Van Lierop, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Between 1500 and 1800, there was hardly a year when great powers weren’t enmeshed in some kind of war.
—Bryan Walsh, Vox, 26 May 2025
The Trump administration’s focus on Greenland – and China’s in recent years – come amid increasing focus on the Arctic as an arena for rivalry between the world’s great powers.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for great power
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Japan and South Korea—both treaty allies of the United States in Northeast Asia—received new warships to bolster their sea power amid North Korea's ongoing naval modernization.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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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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Indeed, Iran has made compromises under political and sanctions pressure in the past, such as during the Obama-era nuclear talks that resulted in Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.—
Scott Peterson,
Christian Science Monitor,
23 June 2025
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Former President Barack Obama struck a deal with Iran and world powers in 2015 that limited the scope of Iran's uranium enrichment program.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
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Just like these are three very different snapshots of women pushing 60, in novels protagonists of a certain age are generally divided into two camps: One, where age is their superpower by virtue of draping them in a cloak of invisibility and/or by having rained down heaps of wisdom upon them.—
Sue Hincenbergs,
People.com,
28 June 2025
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In this economy, intelligent agility is your superpower.—
Mike de Vere,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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“Great power.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20power. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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