as in almighty
having unlimited power or authority
that country's monarch was never an all-powerful ruler, but one who shared power with a parliament
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Recent Examples of all-powerful
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.
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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
Because Mike Madigan -- legendarily grimy Illinois House speaker and all-powerful master of Democratic state politics until his 2021 resignation from office -- has finally been convicted by a federal jury of ten felonies: bribery, conspiracy, and wire fraud, among other matters.
—Jeffrey Blehar, National Review, 13 Feb. 2025
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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
Because Mike Madigan -- legendarily grimy Illinois House speaker and all-powerful master of Democratic state politics until his 2021 resignation from office -- has finally been convicted by a federal jury of ten felonies: bribery, conspiracy, and wire fraud, among other matters.
—Jeffrey Blehar, National Review, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for all-powerful
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But this doesn’t preclude the desire so many have to believe that not every single thing in the universe can be boiled down to facts and figures and that there is a power greater than the almighty atom.—
Marsha Sutton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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Dynasties Fall There are some concrete reasons for City’s almighty drop—the remarkable development this term.—
Henry Flynn,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2024
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In subsequent retcons and embellishments over the years, before the Big Bang occurred for the seventh round, Galan was infused with the glowing omnipotent essence of the Sentience of the Cosmos to become the immortal being Galactus.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2025
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But that shift from ideologue to pragmatist, omnipotent ruler to master delegator, must be emulated.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
10 Jan. 2025
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That agreement recognizes the Pacific archipelago as a sovereign nation that conducts its own foreign policy but gives the U.S. control over defense and security.—
Danica Kirka,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Mar. 2025
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This imperils not only American democracy but also other democratic sovereign nations.—
Mark A. Cohen,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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“All-powerful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/all-powerful. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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