all-powerful
adjective
all-pow·er·ful
ˈȯl-ˈpau̇(-ə)r-fəl 
: having complete or sole power
an all-powerful leader
Examples of all-powerful in a Sentence
that country's monarch was never an all-powerful ruler, but one who shared power with a parliament
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North America has been devastated by war and divided between a decadent, all-powerful Capitol and 12 struggling districts.
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Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2025
In justifying his actions, some of Musk's powerful Big Tech allies suggest that the only way to run our country more effectively is to install an all-powerful CEO-monarch who can remake the government, entirely free of legal constraints.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Spanish regulators followed a long-standing national tradition of vesting regulatory authority in a single all-powerful administrator, the Bank of Spain, which left the country with no mechanism for correcting policy mistakes.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
The very principle that the country would not be ruled by an all-powerful king was foundational to the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed in the Constitution, the latter of which was hammered out during a contentious convention in 1787.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
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Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2025
In justifying his actions, some of Musk's powerful Big Tech allies suggest that the only way to run our country more effectively is to install an all-powerful CEO-monarch who can remake the government, entirely free of legal constraints.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Spanish regulators followed a long-standing national tradition of vesting regulatory authority in a single all-powerful administrator, the Bank of Spain, which left the country with no mechanism for correcting policy mistakes.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
The very principle that the country would not be ruled by an all-powerful king was foundational to the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed in the Constitution, the latter of which was hammered out during a contentious convention in 1787.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
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“All-powerful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/all-powerful. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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