high-powered
adjective
high-pow·ered
ˈhī-ˈpau̇(-ə)rd 
variants
or less commonly high-power
1
: having great drive, energy, or capacity : dynamic
a high-powered executive
2
: having or conferring great influence
a high-powered job
Examples of high-powered in a Sentence
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This flurry of activity is being driven by the marque’s boss Lawrence Stroll, who is determined to transform the storied British automaker into a high-power, high-fashion, high-tech alternative to Ferrari and Bentley.
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Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 19 June 2024
However, white doctors increased their effort for high-power patients by the same amount regardless of race.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
The protein dynamics driving these cellular functions are typically difficult to detect and study in living cells because the activity of proteins is generally invisible to even high-power microscopes.
—Scott Coyle, The Conversation, 31 May 2024
Image Barrett was both Christian supermom and high-powered legal scholar, elite and outsider, a combination of the more secular conservative Federalist Society credentials and the beliefs of the emerging Christian legal movement.
—Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 28 May 2024
Uranus and Neptune, meanwhile—the most remote of the group—will require high-power binoculars or a telescope.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 28 May 2024
But the Miami Herald has found that since 2022, most of the firearms seizures in the country trace back to container shipments that left Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, with the exception of a Miami River cargo load containing 120,000 high-power rounds later confiscated in Haiti.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 28 May 2024
Next, the pair considered what happened to low-power patients while high-power patients were getting extra attention.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
Electrodes that are engineered for faster ion storage lead to batteries that can discharge faster, for high-power applications.
—Wesley Chang, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2024
Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 19 June 2024
However, white doctors increased their effort for high-power patients by the same amount regardless of race.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
The protein dynamics driving these cellular functions are typically difficult to detect and study in living cells because the activity of proteins is generally invisible to even high-power microscopes.
—Scott Coyle, The Conversation, 31 May 2024
Image Barrett was both Christian supermom and high-powered legal scholar, elite and outsider, a combination of the more secular conservative Federalist Society credentials and the beliefs of the emerging Christian legal movement.
—Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 28 May 2024
Uranus and Neptune, meanwhile—the most remote of the group—will require high-power binoculars or a telescope.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 28 May 2024
But the Miami Herald has found that since 2022, most of the firearms seizures in the country trace back to container shipments that left Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, with the exception of a Miami River cargo load containing 120,000 high-power rounds later confiscated in Haiti.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 28 May 2024
Next, the pair considered what happened to low-power patients while high-power patients were getting extra attention.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
Electrodes that are engineered for faster ion storage lead to batteries that can discharge faster, for high-power applications.
—Wesley Chang, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2024
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“High-powered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high-powered. Accessed 3 Jul. 2024.
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