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
Mission: Impossible film sees Tom Cruise dangling from a biplane and going underwater to defeat an all-powerful AI.
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Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 May 2025
One of India's mightiest cricketers, worshipped by a billion people who has been one of only a select few to have lifted a World Cup title for his all-powerful cricket country, looked totally dejected with this blockbuster series slipping away.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Trump likes to cast himself as an all-powerful master of the universe, a titan who can bend reality to his whims.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 5 May 2025
In Green Lantern, Reynolds portrayed Hal Jordan, a test pilot who is granted superpowers and joins an intergalactic police force via an all-powerful green ring that grants him his powers.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 May 2025
One of India's mightiest cricketers, worshipped by a billion people who has been one of only a select few to have lifted a World Cup title for his all-powerful cricket country, looked totally dejected with this blockbuster series slipping away.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Trump likes to cast himself as an all-powerful master of the universe, a titan who can bend reality to his whims.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 5 May 2025
In Green Lantern, Reynolds portrayed Hal Jordan, a test pilot who is granted superpowers and joins an intergalactic police force via an all-powerful green ring that grants him his powers.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for all-powerful
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This open-air display of some of humanity’s oldest works is being slowly erased by industrial pollution from a nearby gas plant, according to scientific studies that have been swept up in an almighty clash of competing ambitions for the region’s future.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
28 May 2025
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Liverpool and Spurs both completed almighty comebacks that campaign.—
Eduardo Tansley,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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Meanwhile, Undertaker plays the omnipotent executioner who can’t quite get Michaels to the chopping block.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
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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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Chicago Tribune Is the Vatican considered a sovereign nation?—
Russ Bynum,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2025
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Documents distributed by Qatari foreign agents working for Venable, for instance, talk up what Qatar views as the positive effects of investments made by its sovereign wealth fund while downplaying the Gulf nation’s links to terrorist organizations.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
25 May 2025
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“All-powerful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/all-powerful. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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