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having great power or influence
- one of the nation's most respected and puissant advocates for the rights of minorities
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- authoritarian,
- autocratic
- (also autocratical),
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- magisterial,
- tyrannical
- (also tyrannic)
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“Puissant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puissant. Accessed 29 Jul. 2021.
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