world power

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Recent Examples of world power 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 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 Strategic competition between world powers should not result in a zero-sum outcome for the global economy. Vasuki Shastry, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024 How an American team of retreads, castoffs, and one software engineer took down a dominant world power By Chris Heath Subscribe to Listen 00:0030:30 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 25 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for world power 
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Noun
  • More to the point, sea power is about power projection for economic gain.
    Colin Flint, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • Hegseth's deep ideological commitment to extremist Christian nationalism, if put in a position of great power and authority, would pose a serious threat to the right to religious freedom enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Syria is an explosive cocktail of non-state actors, of regional powers, great powers.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • They are thought of as the missiles which could level entire cities and threaten major global superpowers.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • For those who remain unfamiliar, Extraordinary is set in an alternate-universe London where every person spontaneously develops a superpower at around the age of 18.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024

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“World power.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/world%20power. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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