world powers

plural of world power

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Noun
  • Riley Gaines has lobbied for bills in several states that would prevent biological males who identify as women from competing in women’s sports.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Since Ukraine is not part of NATO, Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 did not trigger Article 5, though the United States and other member states rushed to provide military and diplomatic assistance to Kyiv.
    Matt Spetalnick, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But Orwell was writing at a time when much of what is now called the Global South was either under the informal or formal control of the superpowers.
    John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
  • While China leads the world with 230 AI clusters, the United States leads with 50% of global compute power for AI, according to a new report on global AI superpowers by TRG Datacenters.
    John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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