as in almighty
having unlimited power or authority
the nearly universal religious belief that God is omnipotent and omniscient
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Recent Examples of omnipotent
Their gods weren’t omniscient, weren’t omnipotent, and definitely weren’t all good.
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Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
There is your beloved child, her forehead too pale, her cheeks too flushed, her enormous eyes gone glassy with fever, tacitly pleading with you, the omnipotent God of her tiny universe, to do something.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2025
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
But that shift from ideologue to pragmatist, omnipotent ruler to master delegator, must be emulated.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
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Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
There is your beloved child, her forehead too pale, her cheeks too flushed, her enormous eyes gone glassy with fever, tacitly pleading with you, the omnipotent God of her tiny universe, to do something.
—Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2025
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
But that shift from ideologue to pragmatist, omnipotent ruler to master delegator, must be emulated.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for omnipotent
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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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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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Without the need to glorify all-powerful rulers, the construction of new buildings and monuments stopped.—
Lizzie Wade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
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Streep starred as Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor-in-chief of the fictional Runway magazine.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
22 May 2025
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The carpaccio is served with those divine Sicilian berry capers.—
Laura Ness,
Mercury News,
25 May 2025
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In the Roman Catholic Church, popes have shown openness to evolution while insisting that the human soul is a divine creation.—
Peter Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2025
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“Omnipotent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omnipotent. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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