great power

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Recent Examples of great power Make sure to cast your bids wisely; after all, with great power comes great responsibility. Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2025 Why the Black Sea matters Russia has long seen the domination of the Black Sea as necessary for its global ambitions, its great power status, and its identity as a civilizational state. Galip Dalay, Time, 19 Aug. 2025 No minor appointment, this position wields great power in rooting out and recommending ways to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse, and in the process potentially destroying people’s reputations and careers through a virtually unchecked use of investigatory power. John Hohman, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2025 But anyone who thinks that the brief ubiquity of corporate diversity trainings is proof that the radical left wields great power and influence in America has quite simply never sat through a corporate diversity training. Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for great power
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Osaka, who has rediscovered her big-point superpower the past few weeks, edged the opener 6-4, breaking serve while holding a 5-4 lead.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • For marketing professionals, AI can be your superpower to supercharge your unique voice, talent and reach in ways never before possible.
    Mark Francis, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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