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Gabriel is the human instrument of The Entity, an advanced form of artificial intelligence that has slowly been infiltrating world powers as in order to destabilize the flow of information.
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Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 22 May 2025
But that would cause another trade-like rift with world powers that Washington has just made good with.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 May 2025
Major world powers, including in Europe, have agreed to prevent Russia from selling oil into global markets for more than $60 per barrel.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 20 May 2025
But experts fear his radical turn from decades of trade practices and his erratic policy announcements will upend the balance of world power and leave the U.S. in a weakened position.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
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Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 22 May 2025
But that would cause another trade-like rift with world powers that Washington has just made good with.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 May 2025
Major world powers, including in Europe, have agreed to prevent Russia from selling oil into global markets for more than $60 per barrel.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 20 May 2025
But experts fear his radical turn from decades of trade practices and his erratic policy announcements will upend the balance of world power and leave the U.S. in a weakened position.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for world power
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In Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 campaign to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, the United States and its coalition allies unleashed massive land, air, and sea power.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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This cooperation makes sense in purely military terms for Russia, a mutually beneficial project of sea power projection.—
Colin Flint,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 2025
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Now, picture a great power—China—with a military to rival the US and fusion reactors that provide virtually unlimited energy.—
Wal van Lierop,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Between 1500 and 1800, there was hardly a year when great powers weren’t enmeshed in some kind of war.—
Bryan Walsh,
Vox,
26 May 2025
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That made Natalia feel special, like speaking another language was a superpower instead of a disability.—
Megan Greenwell,
Rolling Stone,
5 June 2025
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Liberation Weekend’s rejection of the gender binary went hand-in-hand with its refusal to be boxed in by rigid genre labels, harnessing sonic diversity as a superpower.—
Grace Robins-Somerville,
Pitchfork,
4 June 2025
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“World power.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/world%20power. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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