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an extremely powerful nation
The country had become an economic superpower.
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Recent Examples of superpowers
The streamer released a new teaser on Monday for its DC Universe crime drama that offers new glimpses of Hal Jordan’s Green Lantern superpowers as well as a first look at a mysterious character portrayed by Laura Linney.
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Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
Labor unions and worker representatives also pointed out that this was not simply about rival superpowers meeting in Beijing, but about how thousands of factories across Asia—and millions of apparel workers in the region—would sustain their livelihoods in the years ahead.
—Mayu Saini, Footwear News, 18 May 2026
But qubits, despite their superpowers, are incredibly fragile and require isolation from the outside world.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
The superpowers may still have the money.
—Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
With the two global superpowers in proximity to the strait, the question is whether a Hormuz-style showdown could one day happen here too.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 16 May 2026
Many of the children didn’t survive the torturous experimentation, while others developed superpowers.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 15 May 2026
The Boys is an American satirical dark comedy television show that flips the conventional superhero narrative on its head by imagining a society where superpowers are abused for influence and profit.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 May 2026
Both superpowers are hunting for leverage ahead of the meeting next month; China recently blocked a major cross-border tech deal.
—Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026
Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
Labor unions and worker representatives also pointed out that this was not simply about rival superpowers meeting in Beijing, but about how thousands of factories across Asia—and millions of apparel workers in the region—would sustain their livelihoods in the years ahead.
—Mayu Saini, Footwear News, 18 May 2026
But qubits, despite their superpowers, are incredibly fragile and require isolation from the outside world.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
The superpowers may still have the money.
—Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
With the two global superpowers in proximity to the strait, the question is whether a Hormuz-style showdown could one day happen here too.
—Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 16 May 2026
Many of the children didn’t survive the torturous experimentation, while others developed superpowers.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 15 May 2026
The Boys is an American satirical dark comedy television show that flips the conventional superhero narrative on its head by imagining a society where superpowers are abused for influence and profit.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 May 2026
Both superpowers are hunting for leverage ahead of the meeting next month; China recently blocked a major cross-border tech deal.
—Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superpowers
Noun
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The world’s leading space powers desperately want to know what the others are up to high above the equator.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
15 May 2026
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Does Claire somehow heal him with her powers?—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2026
Noun
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Mergers might encourage other states to offer similar programs as a way of funnelling more students into struggling four-year campuses.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
19 May 2026
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The grid of international borders must therefore be ever more militarized, or else the system of states—which is now explicitly a class system, whose functioning depends on mass immobilization—cannot work.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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The rest of the world comprised colonial possessions of the European states and Japan, a few large land empires, and many small principalities.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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Born in the Bronx in 1939, Lauren famously started by selling neckties out of a drawer in the Empire State Building before building one of the world’s most recognizable lifestyle empires.—
Brittany Talarico,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
Noun
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Absolute kingdoms of the '90s and early-2000s.—
Zach Dean OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2026
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All kingdoms crumble, though, and after a decade-plus reign, the cupcake was left behind—an aging monarch overthrown by Dominique Ansel’s cronut, and the neophilic nature of social media feeds.—
Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
28 Apr. 2026
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