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Risks and Ethical Challenges However, with great power comes great responsibility.
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Gerui Wang, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
With that great power came the great responsibility of playing Uncle Ben in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2024
My two great powers are my ability to charm and disarm people from all walks of life, and my ability to crunch numbers in a pinch.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2024
Since the Soviet Union’s launch of the Sputnik space program in 1957, many U.S. policymakers have been in a panic about the United States’ losing its technological edge to another great power.
—Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
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Gerui Wang, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
With that great power came the great responsibility of playing Uncle Ben in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2024
My two great powers are my ability to charm and disarm people from all walks of life, and my ability to crunch numbers in a pinch.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2024
Since the Soviet Union’s launch of the Sputnik space program in 1957, many U.S. policymakers have been in a panic about the United States’ losing its technological edge to another great power.
—Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
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More to the point, sea power is about power projection for economic gain.Colin Flint, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
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This cooperation makes sense in purely military terms for Russia, a mutually beneficial project of sea power projection.Colin Flint, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
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Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Audrey Hepburn were the era's biggest stars as President Dwight D. Eisenhower coasted easily to two presidential terms with the U.S. as a world power.Russell Contreras, Axios, 2 Nov. 2024
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Other fears include world powers deploying nuclear weapons, terrorist attacks, biological warfare and not having enough money for the future.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
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In any event, though again, this aspect of performance is up to OEM configuration somewhat, performance on battery power is indeed one of this Snapdragon X laptop’s superpowers.Dave Altavilla, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The world wants to know: What kind of superpower will America be in the years to come?New York Times, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Great power.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20power. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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