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an extremely powerful nation
The country had become an economic superpower.
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Recent Examples of superpowers
The probes are the latest sign that deep disagreements remain even after the superpowers agreed to a trade war truce in October.
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Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 29 Mar. 2026
All of this means Anthropic is creating something akin to investing superpowers whose wisdom will be parceled out by humans.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
Jeff Bezos is trying to leapfrog into the artificial intelligence race with a $100-billion fund to acquire manufacturers and bring more AI superpowers to factory floors.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
And that’s exciting for artists who make music in a way that utilizes the superpowers and traditions and lineages that have been left by our ancestors for hundreds of years.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Trust your gut and don’t underestimate your superpowers.
—Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 11 Mar. 2026
Large countries with strong militaries could impart their will on smaller ones; institutions were to be bypassed and weakened, freeing superpowers to act.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
Ruby’s spontaneous combustion in the opening scenes of the series is an extremely effective way to lay out the endpoint of the Beauty, even if this sequence raises a lot of questions that the series doesn’t really answer about whether the transformed have superpowers.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
All of these tiny, essential superpowers rely on soil micropores to breathe in and out.
—Emily Hayes, Martha Stewart, 7 Mar. 2026
Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 29 Mar. 2026
All of this means Anthropic is creating something akin to investing superpowers whose wisdom will be parceled out by humans.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
Jeff Bezos is trying to leapfrog into the artificial intelligence race with a $100-billion fund to acquire manufacturers and bring more AI superpowers to factory floors.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
And that’s exciting for artists who make music in a way that utilizes the superpowers and traditions and lineages that have been left by our ancestors for hundreds of years.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Trust your gut and don’t underestimate your superpowers.
—Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 11 Mar. 2026
Large countries with strong militaries could impart their will on smaller ones; institutions were to be bypassed and weakened, freeing superpowers to act.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
Ruby’s spontaneous combustion in the opening scenes of the series is an extremely effective way to lay out the endpoint of the Beauty, even if this sequence raises a lot of questions that the series doesn’t really answer about whether the transformed have superpowers.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2026
All of these tiny, essential superpowers rely on soil micropores to breathe in and out.
—Emily Hayes, Martha Stewart, 7 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superpowers
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In the Middle East, Western imperial powers helped engineer a geopolitical order built on instability, mistrust, extraction and armed dependency.—
Mehrnoush Soroush,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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The justices ordered the page be released, which paved the way for the expansive powers grand juries have today to investigate and criticize public officials and entities.—
Lawrence Mower,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2026
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Frankenburg has seen commercial conversations with Gulf states speed up since the onset of the Iran war, CEO Kusti Salm told CNBC.—
Kai Nicol-Schwarz,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2026
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But Mabrey says other states have similar laws and hospitals are still in business.—
Shaun Boyd,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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That will not be achieved with our current focus on military strength and power as well as economic domination — only an uneasy peace, until toppled by resistance and rebellion, as all the great empires have been in the past.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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Indonesia’s richest man, Michael Bambang Hartono, who helped turn the Djarum cigarette company into one of the country’s largest business empires and later became a controlling shareholder of Bank Central Asia, Indonesia’s biggest private lender, died Thursday.—
Niniek Karmini,
Fortune,
19 Mar. 2026
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Cliffs of Moher, Ireland The rugged coastline of County Clare served as a dramatic setting in Harry Potter, and the wider Wild Atlantic Way has doubled as everything from fantasy kingdoms to period dramas.—
Lauren Schuster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Mar. 2026
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That’s County Clare’s rugged coastline, and the wider Wild Atlantic Way has doubled as everything from fantasy kingdoms to period dramas.—
Lauren Schuster,
Miami Herald,
23 Mar. 2026
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