as in empire
an extremely powerful nation
The country had become an economic superpower.
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Recent Examples of superpower
That kind of self-respect becomes a superpower for life.
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Charna Flam, People.com, 6 May 2025
Also known as Marvel’s First Family, the team in the comics gained superpowers while on a mission in space.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
But Trump upped tariffs on China to a staggering total of 145 percent, prompting Beijing to up its own import tax to 125 percent and triggering a standoff between the global superpowers that experts have said isn’t sustainable.
—Julia Mueller, The Hill, 30 Apr. 2025
While the conflict became a Cold War superpower showdown, its main participants were Vietnamese who fought and died for their respective ideas of sovereignty.
— Made By History, Time, 30 Apr. 2025
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Charna Flam, People.com, 6 May 2025
Also known as Marvel’s First Family, the team in the comics gained superpowers while on a mission in space.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
But Trump upped tariffs on China to a staggering total of 145 percent, prompting Beijing to up its own import tax to 125 percent and triggering a standoff between the global superpowers that experts have said isn’t sustainable.
—Julia Mueller, The Hill, 30 Apr. 2025
While the conflict became a Cold War superpower showdown, its main participants were Vietnamese who fought and died for their respective ideas of sovereignty.
— Made By History, Time, 30 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superpower
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The Gemstone kids already share authority over their family’s multimillion-dollar empire.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
5 May 2025
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The Trump family expands its lucrative cryptocurrency empire, raising questions of corruption.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 May 2025
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The way their dynamic is structured, Colin fears that one wrong move could bring things to an end, which merely reinforces Ray’s power over him.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
18 May 2025
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At the time of writing, some 50,000 were still without power in Missouri, according to PowerOutage.us, a service that tracks disruptions.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 May 2025
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John Cunningham, assistant commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, said that Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are helping wildfire efforts by sharing information with state agencies and providing other support.—
Katie Rohman,
Twin Cities,
13 May 2025
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One of the potential steps would be to move large portions of the sanctions, including 200 billion euros ($222 billion) in frozen Russian state assets, to a different legal basis.—
Silvia Amaro,
CNBC,
13 May 2025
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With these forces united, Ukraine had a better chance of negotiating an outcome that protects its own interests as well as those of Europe and democracies elsewhere in the world.—
Eric Green,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025
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But perhaps the most serious rebuke to the liberal international order has come from inside the democracies, where populist parties have hitched economic grievances, anti-immigrant sentiments, and the loss of faith in their own elites and institutions to an authoritarian domestic turn.—
Margaret MacMillan,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
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The past holds many examples of great change: regimes ending, monarchies becoming republics, whole civilizations vanishing, ways of managing relations between peoples and states swept aside, to be replaced by new ones.—
Margaret MacMillan,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
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Drawn out of his humble galley kitchen and into a world of diplomatic intrigue, Carême becomes a pawn in the cold war between Talleyrand, a Machiavellian schemer stabbing backs in the name of a newborn republic, and Fouché, a draconian lawman who mistrusts anything that moves.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
30 Apr. 2025
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Goldman Sachs in mid-April warned that Brent crude at $62 a barrel — its price forecast at the time — could more than double the kingdom’s 2024 budget deficit of $30.8 billion.—
Natasha Turak,
CNBC,
11 May 2025
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Having covered Alta Moda shows since 2012, Lever is both witness and visual chronicler of the most exciting haute couture weekend in the fashion kingdom.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2025
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For instance, during Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship in the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961, the head of intelligence, Johnny Abbes, was plucked from obscurity in Mexico and in 1958 began to lead the dictator’s repression machine.—
Erica Frantz,
The Conversation,
16 May 2025
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In the Soviet dictatorship, this was meant literally: engineers and senior managers in charge of color film production would be denounced, arrested, and executed during the Great Purges of 1937–1838.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
15 May 2025
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In Washington, the White House said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in constant contact with the leaders of both countries and reiterated that President Donald Trump wants to see the conflict de-escalate.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
11 May 2025
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There are, according to the administration, dozens more countries lined up to get trade deals.—
Paul Bedard,
The Washington Examiner,
10 May 2025
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“Superpower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superpower. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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