as in empire
an extremely powerful nation
The country had become an economic superpower.
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Recent Examples of superpower
While the duo has long wanted to work together on a project sans superpowers, Hemsworth admits in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that playing such wildly different characters presented unique challenges.
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Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Feb. 2026
When his old man George was running the show, the Yankees represented the sport’s signature superpower, no questions asked.
—Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
When the stage is big and the lights are at their brightest, Brooksby's superpower is on full display.
—Johnny Resendiz, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Anthropic, one of the more outspoken companies in the artificial intelligence space, rattled stocks with the seeming superpowers of its Claude chatbot, prompting a selloff across the software sector with potential obsolescence suddenly knocking at its door.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
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Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Feb. 2026
When his old man George was running the show, the Yankees represented the sport’s signature superpower, no questions asked.
—Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
When the stage is big and the lights are at their brightest, Brooksby's superpower is on full display.
—Johnny Resendiz, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Anthropic, one of the more outspoken companies in the artificial intelligence space, rattled stocks with the seeming superpowers of its Claude chatbot, prompting a selloff across the software sector with potential obsolescence suddenly knocking at its door.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superpower
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Southeast Florida, where Griffin moved his Citadel hedge fund operations and where Ross, the owner of the Miami Dolphins, oversees his real-estate empire, Related, is just the start.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
15 Feb. 2026
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Now there could be an M&A frenzy in the works as prospective buyers plot ways to carve up his representation empire.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Feb. 2026
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Food and drink Onsite restaurant L’Escale is just as much a Greenwich institution as the hotel itself—a proper entity conveniently attached at the hip to your lodging for power lunchers in daylight, special-occasion diners in the evening, and a rotating cast of Hopper subjects always at the bar.—
Charlie Hobbs,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Feb. 2026
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Republicans often couched their fury at speech restrictions — around right-wing cultural politics and COVID-19, in particular — as part of a broader critique of corporate power.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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The program also pledges to fulfill conditions for adopting the euro currency by 2030, and to invest in Hungary's faltering state health care and public transportation sectors.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Feb. 2026
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South Korean state media reported that snowboarder Choi Ga-on received 300 million won from her sports association after winning gold, while private companies also presented additional gifts, including a luxury watch from Swiss brand Omega.—
Lee Ying Shan,Sydney Goh,
CNBC,
16 Feb. 2026
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Emmanuel Macron equated territorial sovereignty with the rights of the French to police their own misinformation and democracy.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
15 Feb. 2026
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Focus on our rearmaments, on the support for Ukraine, and the threat that Russia poses to all of our democracies.—
Azhar Sukri,
CNBC,
15 Feb. 2026
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The republic has been ruled by clerics since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.—
Max Burman,
NBC news,
17 Feb. 2026
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For these reasons, the next election and certainly the following could be political Armageddon, resulting in the sky actually falling on this republic.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2026
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And perhaps most important, by empowering Congress, not the president, to remedy deficient state electoral schemes, the Constitution prevents presidents from rewriting the election code by executive fiat and thus provides an additional safeguard against military dictatorship.—
Jeffrey Rosen,
The Atlantic,
16 Feb. 2026
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In this country, unlike in dictatorships, people expect to be able to identify law enforcement officers by sight and by badge number.—
William Robiner,
Twin Cities,
15 Feb. 2026
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The other, a long robe traditional to the men of his desert kingdom.—
Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC news,
14 Feb. 2026
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The finding has implications outside the insect kingdom.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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But invading the second biggest country in Europe, after Russia itself, would be a potentially catastrophic prospect which would, surely, give a cold strategist like Putin pause for thought.—
Matthew Chance,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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The company is one of many benefiting from a ramp up in military spending in many countries.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Superpower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superpower. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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