How to Use omnipotent in a Sentence

omnipotent

adjective
  • Even the omnipotent man that has all three is exposed as a con man.
    cleveland.com, 2 June 2017
  • The world is facing its first big shock in an era when central banks are no longer omnipotent.
    Greg Ip, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2020
  • In simple terms, being CEO is not the same as being omnipotent.
    Neil Senturia, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • New boss Unai Emery is more of a head coach than an omnipotent manager like Wenger was.
    SI.com, 29 May 2018
  • An omnipotent celestial body has a lot to teach five college best friends.
    Sarah Verschoor, USA Today, 15 May 2020
  • Gazidis is right to believe that the era of the omnipotent manager, overseeing every aspect of the club, is over.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • In China, many had hoped the supposedly omnipresent and omnipotent state would come to their rescue in times of crisis like this.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Having been to the moon and back, this omnipotent sports watch is built with stellar accuracy and performance in mind to survive in space—and on your wrist.
    Men's Health, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The past, present, and future are all happening to this omnipotent superbeing at once.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2019
  • An omnipotent Apollo scowls over the mantel; a hungover Bacchus sleeps off a bender in a bedroom downstairs.
    James McAuley, Town & Country, 13 Aug. 2018
  • Our only hope remains in the unseen recompense of the invisible, omnipotent God who King believed would avenge the sins of these evil men.
    Michael Harriot, The Root, 12 Jan. 2018
  • But their few victorious skirmishes and tall tales chipped away at the seemingly omnipotent image of the Royal Navy, then the world’s finest.
    Alex Horton, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2018
  • If the boss doesn’t pretend to be omniscient and omnipotent, relationships with the staff will be more productive.
    Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Republicans, omnipotent but unloved, need to reflect on why that is.
    The Economist, 20 July 2017
  • The omniscient and nearly omnipotent power of AI has been called into question.
    Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The wealthy, omnipotent Oprah Winfrey runs a farm that supplies local restaurants with humble cabbage.
    Martha Cheng, WSJ, 8 May 2019
  • Even when these companies go public, some of their founders remain omnipotent.
    Christopher Mims, WSJ, 7 June 2018
  • No human is truly omnipotent, so holding yourself to this standard isn't healthy.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The supposedly omnipresent and omnipotent Communist Party is well aware of the power of the media and public opinion.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 25 June 2021
  • This cash has made an already omnipotent cartel even more powerful.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The show deals with the emergence of a seemingly omnipotent gossip columnists, and maneuvers the slings and arrows of Regency-era high society.
    Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Tad fixes another round and by the time you all troop out of the bathroom you are feeling omnipotent.
    Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, 1984
  • If there’s a prop the writers can dream up the show creates it, usually using the neighborhood’s omnipotent software assistant, Janet (D’Arcy Carden).
    Eric Thurm, Esquire, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Lady Purbeck was kept by the omnipotent Villiers family from seeing him and was deprived of financial support.
    Richard Davenport-Hines, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017
  • While the concept of omnipotent specialists who can make a garden grow overnight is relatively new, villa travel isn't.
    Lauren Lipton, Town & Country, 13 Mar. 2015
  • No matter—shareholders rejected a motion to strip the CEO of his special voting rights, leaving him as omnipotent as ever.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 1 June 2018
  • Parliament isn’t omnipotent and shouldn’t overrule checks and balances to control the judiciary.
    Marek Strzelecki, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2017
  • Light, whose father is a cop, then uses his newfound power to begin imposing his own version of grim justice on the world, killing the criminals of the world with a stroke of his pen, and styling himself as Kira, an omnipotent lord of murder.
    Joshua Rivera, GQ, 25 Aug. 2017
  • This paradigm makes Wanda the showrunner, the nearly omnipotent creator by whose word plots swerve, sets rise, and supporting characters vanish or return.
    Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The fact campus security cameras had missed the death in a nation with an increasingly omnipotent surveillance network was, for some, a reason for outrage.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 14 May 2021

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