Thesaurus results for SUPERPOWER

superpower

noun

Definition of superpower

as in empire

an extremely powerful nation The country had become an economic superpower.

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Recent Examples of superpower Increasingly, style is being seen as a kind of superpower for the mass market. — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026 His political superpower has never been his breadth of knowledge, intelligence, compassion or his empathy. — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026 Chinese leader Xi Jinping is set to arrive in Washington on Wednesday, but likely without a coterie of corporate leaders, dimming already-low expectations of potential business deals between the superpowers. — Tasneem Nashrulla, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Some China analysts have raised concerns about the unusually top-down diplomatic arrangement between the two economic superpowers. — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for superpower

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Noun

Beyond the walls of the company’s London headquarters, which is filled with thousands of its plushy pink octopus mascots, Jackson’s empire may look like an unwieldy one.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Cornerbacks need a short memory to succeed because the NFL’s $23 billion to $24 billion empire is built on passing games thriving in the NFL.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of empire

Noun

Just ask the Taliban, now back in charge in Afghanistan after being driven from power.

— Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
That’s not to mention what could be a massively consequential midterm election, fueled by AI anxiety among voters, that could test the bounds of their power.

— Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of power

Noun

For example, in 2023, commercial insurers paid more than $2,500 on average for colonoscopies performed in a hospital outpatient department in Massachusetts, according to state data.

— Bob Herman, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
Democrat senators oppose the Republican proposal that shifts some SNAP cost to states.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of state

Noun

Barber argued that unfettered capitalism and the backlash to it, which was increasingly expressed through forms of fundamentalist extremism, although in contest with each other, were both a danger to democracies.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
Netanyahu then got to the heart of the lies perpetrated against the only democracy in the region.

— Cal Thomas, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of democracy

Noun

This is a sensitive moment for Brazil's democracy Brazil emerged from military dictatorship in 1985 and has since developed into one of the world's largest democracies.

— Catherine Osborn, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026
Cseh, the archive's director, said successor governments to dictatorships rarely disclose the names of previous agents and informants, let alone records as detailed as those Hungary is preparing to release.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of dictatorship

Noun

Samuel, or Samuil in Bulgarian, was a warrior emperor who battled the Byzantine Empire to expand his kingdom but was ultimately defeated and died shortly afterward in 1014.

— COSTAS KANTOURIS, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
That has left the kingdom searching for friends beyond Washington, for allies ready to put rockets where the rhetoric is and assist in a fight Saudi Arabia considers existential.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of kingdom

Noun

These countries will face the costs of aging at much lower income levels than the advanced economies that aged before them, the report says, noting that in Europe, the same shift took several decades.

— Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026
Some Southeast Asian countries are trying to leverage their strengths to capture more of the value chain.

— Angelica Ang, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

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