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
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The model appeared to nearly match the capabilities of its American rivals, despite years of mounting US restrictions on Chinese access to high-power AI chips typically used to train such models.
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Simone McCarthy, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
The simulators are projected on to massive screens, run by high-power PCs that connect to an overhead camera that tracks a multitude of statistics, like ball and swing speed, angle of attack, and the ball’s arc through the air.
—Gqlshare, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2025
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.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2025
To reduce the feature size of transistors further, people invented high-power lasers that could produce ultraviolet beams at shorter, 248-nm and 193-nm wavelengths.
—Jayson Stewart, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2025
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Simone McCarthy, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
The simulators are projected on to massive screens, run by high-power PCs that connect to an overhead camera that tracks a multitude of statistics, like ball and swing speed, angle of attack, and the ball’s arc through the air.
—Gqlshare, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2025
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.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2025
To reduce the feature size of transistors further, people invented high-power lasers that could produce ultraviolet beams at shorter, 248-nm and 193-nm wavelengths.
—Jayson Stewart, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2025
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“High-powered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high-powered. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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