world power

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Recent Examples of world power These efforts reflect how countries across the globe see the Vatican as an important world power. Time, 7 May 2025 That could set in motion an effort to snap back United Nations sanctions on Iran via a measure in Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that’s still active until October. Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025 That Israeli announcement came just before President Donald Trump in his first term unilaterally withdrew America from Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, which greatly limited its program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Arkansas Online, 9 June 2025 That Israeli announcement came just before President Donald Trump in his first term unilaterally withdrew America from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, which greatly limited its program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for world power
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Noun
  • Japan and South Korea—both treaty allies of the United States in Northeast Asia—received new warships to bolster their sea power amid North Korea's ongoing naval modernization.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The power struggle unfolding in the far north does indeed have much in common with the original Great Game, the nineteenth-century competition between the era’s two great powers, the British and Russian Empires, over access to strategically and economically valuable territory in Central Asia.
    Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • In each of these periodicals, the passage—unmoored from its original context among other beauty secrets—offered a lengthy and extremely specific taxonomy of the connection between hair and character: Coarse, black hair and dark skin signify great power of character, with a tendency to sensuality.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Just like these are three very different snapshots of women pushing 60, in novels protagonists of a certain age are generally divided into two camps: One, where age is their superpower by virtue of draping them in a cloak of invisibility and/or by having rained down heaps of wisdom upon them.
    Sue Hincenbergs, People.com, 28 June 2025
  • In this economy, intelligent agility is your superpower.
    Mike de Vere, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025

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