as in empire
an extremely powerful nation
The country had become an economic superpower.
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Recent Examples of superpower
America asserted its position, secured a partner through alignment against common rivals, and laid the groundwork for its emergence as a global superpower.
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Staff, FOXNews.com, 21 June 2025
Are rain delays the NASCAR Chicago Street Race’s superpower?
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
Each hero has a unique moveset that's fine-tuned to highlight their superpowers.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 18 June 2025
In tandem with regular mowing, keeping an immaculate lawn edge is a landscape superpower that instantly makes your yard look tidy and well maintained.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2025
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Staff, FOXNews.com, 21 June 2025
Are rain delays the NASCAR Chicago Street Race’s superpower?
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
Each hero has a unique moveset that's fine-tuned to highlight their superpowers.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 18 June 2025
In tandem with regular mowing, keeping an immaculate lawn edge is a landscape superpower that instantly makes your yard look tidy and well maintained.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superpower
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Great Britain, in alliance with the Dutch Republic and Habsburg Spain, opposed France’s efforts to install a Bourbon French prince, fearing a united Franco-Spanish empire.—
Aurora Martínez,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 June 2025
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Her arrest comes 18 days after Lopez and four others were accused of establishing what prosecutors called a multi-million dollar casino empire before he was elected in 2020.—
Cristóbal Reyes,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 June 2025
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Reality Check is a Star series holding those with power to account and shining a light on their decisions.—
David Hudnall,
Kansas City Star,
23 June 2025
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Why Tacit Knowledge Often Isn't Shared Despite its power, tacit knowledge rarely flows freely.—
Wayne Yu,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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The money, however, won’t be enough to equip all of the city’s 25,000 bodegas with panic buttons, and the United Bodegas Association is pressing for more city and state funding for the initiative.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
18 June 2025
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Seventeen people in 13 states have also gotten sick as a result of the outbreak.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
18 June 2025
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Your bombastic attacks on the free press are, at best, unflattering — and at worst, undermine a core tenet of democracy.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 June 2025
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Mamdani has all but clinched the nomination after Cuomo conceded the race this week, and because of his Democratic Socialist label and controversial proposals, billionaires have rushed to paint the young politician as a threat to business, democracy, and the Democratic Party.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
28 June 2025
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In the long term, the collapse of that pillar of regime stability could weaken the edifice of the Islamic republic itself.—
The Editors,
National Review,
24 June 2025
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While Iran’s military capabilities have been degraded by punishing Israeli air strikes that began a week and a half ago, the Islamic republic was able to launch missiles at a U.S. base in Qatar on Monday.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
23 June 2025
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More than translation Spanish Jews who refused to convert in 1492, meanwhile, had been forced into exile and barred from the kingdom’s colonies.—
Flora Cassen,
The Conversation,
27 June 2025
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Over the course of 12 episodes and a sequel special, viewers see the decimation of a kingdom at the hand of a flesh-eating virus, and survivors can only fend off the undead with armor, swords, bows, and arrows.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
26 June 2025
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The backdrop of the Marcos dictatorship shaped her artistic approach, defined by an interest in quotidian experience—including everyday injustices such as gender inequality and the ecological exploitation of the Philippines by greedy conglomerates.—
Hung Duong,
Artforum,
18 June 2025
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This brings me back to the conclusion that the Venezuelan dictatorship — perhaps Latin America’s biggest potential winner of a global oil price hike — along with Colombia and Mexico may get, at best, a brief respite if the Iran war disrupts world oil shipping lanes.—
Andres Oppenheimer,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2025
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The Republican president earlier told reporters that the U.S. was soon preparing to send letters to different countries, informing them of the new tariff rate his administration would impose on them.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
28 June 2025
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That colossal production, which involved the construction of villages in which to film and the onscreen involvement of the host country’s armed forces, began as a lark and turned into an albatross.—
Jillian Steinhauer,
New Yorker,
27 June 2025
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