as in almighty
having unlimited power or authority
the nearly universal religious belief that God is omnipotent and omniscient
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Recent Examples of omnipotent
They have been denounced as lecherous predators and as omnipotent conspirators, as arch-Bolsheviks and arch-capitalists.
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Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Today, those who build these nearly omnipotent algorithms are still possessed of a human conscience.
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Tyler Johnson,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
Exactly — omnipotent, completely ignorant to any outside influences.
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Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
24 Aug. 2025
Scholars like John Lennox argue that the Babel story warns against hubris in innovation, where the pursuit of omnipotent power, especially through AI and synthetic consciousness, may lead to fragmentation and collapse, not to triumph.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 2025
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Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Today, those who build these nearly omnipotent algorithms are still possessed of a human conscience.
—
Tyler Johnson,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
Exactly — omnipotent, completely ignorant to any outside influences.
—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
24 Aug. 2025
Scholars like John Lennox argue that the Babel story warns against hubris in innovation, where the pursuit of omnipotent power, especially through AI and synthetic consciousness, may lead to fragmentation and collapse, not to triumph.
—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for omnipotent
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The World Cup remains a sporting event but offers an almighty business opportunity for many sectors.
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When Stagg’s calculations lead him to conclude that an almighty storm is set to break on June 5, 1944 — the day originally earmarked for the Normandy landings — after a long period of balmy calm, potentially scuppering the entire vast project, his simple but urgent advice is to wait a day.
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However, the dream of fully sovereign AI inevitably runs up against hard constraints around compute, capital, and energy.
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The firm raised the money from regional sovereign wealth funds and global investors, Bloomberg reported.
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The second movie, which brought back the original director David Frankel and screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, picks up 20 years later as Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs returns to Runway magazine as a features editor under Meryl Streep’s all-powerful editor-in-chief, Miranda Priestly.
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There were also some new characters joining Season 2 of the series including Robert House, played by Theroux, an enigmatic, all-powerful technocrat dedicated to the pursuit of his own interests by any means necessary.
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For virtually all of human history, people were subjects of kings or rulers who claimed divine and unquestioned power.
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The labor of these aging world-builders becomes a blueprint to navigate memory, legacy, and mortality, revealing the divine spirit residing in their daily lives.
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“Omnipotent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omnipotent. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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