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With great power comes great responsibility, so there are a few things to consider before picking up just any hair removal device.
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Iman Balagam, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2025
Yet, with great power comes great responsibility.
—Chidambaram Bhat, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The great power contest today seems to be between who will lead an increasingly autocratic world, and China is moving into the lead.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Four home runs in a single game is one of those ultra-rare individual feats that most great power hitters never even sniff throughout their careers.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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Iman Balagam, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2025
Yet, with great power comes great responsibility.
—Chidambaram Bhat, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The great power contest today seems to be between who will lead an increasingly autocratic world, and China is moving into the lead.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Four home runs in a single game is one of those ultra-rare individual feats that most great power hitters never even sniff throughout their careers.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for great power
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China is set to debut at least two of its unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) during a military parade as the country's sea power gap with the United States continues to narrow.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Aug. 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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In 2015, Iran and several world powers, including the United States, signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) limiting Iran's civilian nuclear program to peaceful purposes in exchange for lifting economic sanctions imposed on the country.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
2 July 2025
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Iran likely would not have been able to breach its nonproliferation obligations — as reported by the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency — had Trump not trashed the pact that President Obama and other world powers, including Russia, made with Iran to limit its nuclear program.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
24 June 2025
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And as the superpowers moved on from Cold War battlefields, the ideological paradigms that had once made Central American revolutions feel globally significant faded with them.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Oct. 2025
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Whether or not autarky makes sense for a superpower like America, its allies in Europe and the Indo-Pacific will suffer in a world where barriers to trade and investment continue to rise.—
Ben Bland,
NPR,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Great power.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20power. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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