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
Their gods weren’t omniscient, weren’t omnipotent, and definitely weren’t all good.
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Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
There is your beloved child, her forehead too pale, her cheeks too flushed, her enormous eyes gone glassy with fever, tacitly pleading with you, the omnipotent God of her tiny universe, to do something.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2025
In subsequent retcons and embellishments over the years, before the Big Bang occurred for the seventh round, Galan was infused with the glowing omnipotent essence of the Sentience of the Cosmos to become the immortal being Galactus.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025
But that shift from ideologue to pragmatist, omnipotent ruler to master delegator, must be emulated.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
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Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
There is your beloved child, her forehead too pale, her cheeks too flushed, her enormous eyes gone glassy with fever, tacitly pleading with you, the omnipotent God of her tiny universe, to do something.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2025
In subsequent retcons and embellishments over the years, before the Big Bang occurred for the seventh round, Galan was infused with the glowing omnipotent essence of the Sentience of the Cosmos to become the immortal being Galactus.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025
But that shift from ideologue to pragmatist, omnipotent ruler to master delegator, must be emulated.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for omnipotent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for omnipotent
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Back in 2020, Dana Walden — then head of Disney TV and now co-chair of Disney Entertainment — negotiated a blockbuster deal to steal the almighty Kardashian clan away from their longtime home, NBCUniversal.—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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The Hollywood pair took an almighty punt when deciding to spend £2million buying a club that even its most devoted fans feared would never again experience football’s glories.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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Spanning nearly two decades of work, the exhibition, currently on view at The Whitney Museum of American Art is an assemblage of close to 50 portraits that reimagine the American realist tradition by centering Black subjects in moments of stillness, style, and sovereign presence.—
Najha Zigbi-Johnson,
Essence,
30 Apr. 2025
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Unlike most of football’s recent risers, Glimt’s ascent has not coincided with a takeover from a billionaire or sovereign wealth fund.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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One of India's mightiest cricketers, worshipped by a billion people who has been one of only a select few to have lifted a World Cup title for his all-powerful cricket country, looked totally dejected with this blockbuster series slipping away.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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Trump likes to cast himself as an all-powerful master of the universe, a titan who can bend reality to his whims.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
5 May 2025
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Maybe the Cubs, perennially in need of divine intervention, will now have a new pal in a high place.—
Chicago Tribune,
Twin Cities,
11 May 2025
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The Knicks overcame 20-point deficits in Games 1 and 2, a feat some might see as divine intervention.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
9 May 2025
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“Omnipotent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omnipotent. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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