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Recent Examples of sea power
But some historians have argued that this glossed a scheme to provide a bastion for British sea power in the eastern seas.
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Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
To military experts, Trump’s fleet would be hopelessly unsuited to strategic and tactical threats that are already faced by American sea power and likely to become more dangerous by the time the vessels could be deployed.
—Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2026
The United States has deployed three naval vessels—including two aircraft carriers—capable of operating F-35 stealth fighter jets across the Western Pacific this week amid China's rapidly growing sea power and expanding maritime activity in the region.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
This partnership is a geopolitical and technical win for both sides, and yet another sign that uncrewed maritime systems are becoming central to modern sea power.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 16 Nov. 2025
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Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
To military experts, Trump’s fleet would be hopelessly unsuited to strategic and tactical threats that are already faced by American sea power and likely to become more dangerous by the time the vessels could be deployed.
—Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2026
The United States has deployed three naval vessels—including two aircraft carriers—capable of operating F-35 stealth fighter jets across the Western Pacific this week amid China's rapidly growing sea power and expanding maritime activity in the region.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
This partnership is a geopolitical and technical win for both sides, and yet another sign that uncrewed maritime systems are becoming central to modern sea power.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 16 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sea power
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Sánchez, during his meeting with Xi, praised China as the only major world power that could end the war in Iran and other conflicts such as in Ukraine.—
Jared Gans,
The Hill,
15 Apr. 2026
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According to several interviews and contemporaneous records, Brockman offered a counterproposal: OpenAI could enrich itself by playing world powers—including China and Russia—against one another, perhaps by starting a bidding war among them.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Another lesson to be learned from Iran is that wars at this level, involving a great power and a lower-tier one, can’t always be tidy operations that end when a president is snatched by special forces in the middle of the night.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
10 May 2026
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His aversion to seeing the deficit widen further on the back of a bigger military bill highlights a phenomenon observed by historian Niall Ferguson, who has said any great power that spends more on debt servicing than on defense risks ceasing to be a great power.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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As former Tribune classical music critic John von Rhein wrote in 2016, the fact that Chicago Chorale’s members were all volunteers was the group’s superpower.—
Doug George,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2026
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China has been mostly sitting out the conflict, at least publicly, viewing it as a spasm of violence emanating from a superpower hard-pressed to assert its hegemony over a weaker opponent.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
7 May 2026
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“Sea power.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sea%20power. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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