superpower
IPA: supɝpˈaʊɝ
noun
- (countable) A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the United States or formerly the Soviet Union.
- (countable, fiction) An extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.
- (obsolete, uncountable) Electricity generated in a large plant that is tied into a regional network, on a larger scale than was common in the early years of commercial electricity production.
- (mathematics) A tetration.
- (uncountable) Excessive or superior power.
verb
- (transitive) To give extraordinary powers to.
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Examples of "superpower" in Sentences
- It is not an economic superpower.
- And there is no emerging superpower in NATO.
- Russia is a superpower and India is not quite a superpower.
- The citation speaks of the hegemony of a current superpower.
- They are the world superpower, they are the regional superpower.
- America is only a superpower because it is labeled a superpower.
- I live in Russia, it's a potential superpower, not a superpower.
- Bewley: His superpower is his intense strength … mine is tracking.
- An energy superpower does not mean that it's a superpower in general.
- This is an article saying what is a superpower and why US is a superpower.
- The UK was a superpower just as the superpower article itself states it was.
- Much like one of the guys in Temps, the superpower is apparently to be super not noticeable.
- He elaborated later that the word superpower is no longer sufficient to describe the United States.
- My "superpower" is being able to locate something in the house even though I'm at work and the kids are calling me, "Mom, have you seen my homework-backpack-school project, ..."
- Yet we know that China, which President Obama identified in his inaugural address as already the "renewable energy superpower", is on a pell-mell course to capture way more than its share of these jobs.
- Concerning Roadkill, his superpower is to telepathically control vehicles so he regularly uses other cars to distract the cops by driving into them and causing major accidents and chaotic traffic while he makes his getaway after a heist.
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