as in empire
an extremely powerful nation
The country had become an economic superpower.
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Recent Examples of superpower
Over the course of its wildly wonderful seven seasons, the CW series saw its cast solve murders, face off against cults, go to prison, fight bears, go back in time, and gain superpowers — and, somehow, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
Together on recent projects, and Runner co-founder and OneRepublic star Ryan Tedder teamed with K-pop label superpower HYBE to form and train a new global boy group.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2025
But one thing that civics teaches is that elections and voting is the democratic superpower.
—Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
The Queen of Wands shows up and tells you that confidence becomes your superpower this month.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
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Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
Together on recent projects, and Runner co-founder and OneRepublic star Ryan Tedder teamed with K-pop label superpower HYBE to form and train a new global boy group.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2025
But one thing that civics teaches is that elections and voting is the democratic superpower.
—Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
The Queen of Wands shows up and tells you that confidence becomes your superpower this month.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superpower
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One of them isn’t so small anymore, as Cal AI has taken off to become a $30 million empire.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
12 Oct. 2025
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Mac Jones was the heir to Tom Brady’s New England empire, but he was then sent to Jacksonville.—
Dianna Russini,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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The last airstrikes in Kabul by a foreign power were in 2022 when the US killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, according to ACLED data, Pandya said.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
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Recovering and processing that gas, instead of wasting it, could ease Iraq's chronic power shortages.—
Emma Graham,
CNBC,
15 Oct. 2025
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North Korea has kept celebratory plans for the 80th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea on Friday tightly under wraps – much like the secretive and isolated state has done in the past with significant dates.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
9 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement The question of Palestinian statehood What remains somewhat unanswered for now is the future of a Palestinian state.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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That's not how voting in a democracy takes place.—
Ayesha Javed,
Time,
12 Oct. 2025
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Otherwise, the false claims by today’s hyper-confident chatbots and the wave of hyper-realistic fake videos will continue to exacerbate polarization, threaten real-world violence and further undermine our threatened democracy.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
10 Oct. 2025
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Our guides prepared with customary rigor, reading widely in the ever-growing scholarship on women in the early republic.—
Jane Kamensky,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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The servants of this democratic republic’s machinery are, in truth, nothing but members of a mafia set up to plunder the island’s riches—and the West is complicit, with its own interests in the riches underground, in the ocean, from the soil.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Oct. 2025
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The plants in the kingdom were designed to convert crude oil directly into chemical products.—
Matthew Martin,
semafor.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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With war looming and chaos consuming the kingdom — drawing in the ruthless kings of other Scandinavian countries and even a powerful English ruler — the stage is set for a thundering, cataclysmic and utterly magical new Norse saga.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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Made as Brazil’s dictatorship was losing its grip, these films confronted repression indirectly, turning sensuality into an act of defiance.—
Lise Pedersen,
Variety,
12 Oct. 2025
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As the series continues, the twins find their parents, grow up, fall in love and fight dictatorship.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
12 Oct. 2025
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And only three of those countries are members of NATO.—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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At least since 1800, when Parson Weems published his Life of Washington, biography has been the medium through which most Americans have understood the birth of their country.—
Jane Kamensky,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Superpower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superpower. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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