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When, in his first term, President Donald Trump pulled out of a U.S. nuclear deal with Iran and several world powers, Iran’s currency lost half its value.
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Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 17 June 2025
After years of negotiations, Iran and six world powers in 2015 agreed to a nuclear deal that limited Iran’s nuclear threat in return for lighter sanctions.
—Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
That could set in motion an effort to snap back United Nations sanctions on Iran via a measure in Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that's still active until October.
—Arkansas Online, 12 June 2025
Indeed, Iran has made compromises under political and sanctions pressure in the past, such as during the Obama-era nuclear talks that resulted in Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
—Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2025
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Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 17 June 2025
After years of negotiations, Iran and six world powers in 2015 agreed to a nuclear deal that limited Iran’s nuclear threat in return for lighter sanctions.
—Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
That could set in motion an effort to snap back United Nations sanctions on Iran via a measure in Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers that's still active until October.
—Arkansas Online, 12 June 2025
Indeed, Iran has made compromises under political and sanctions pressure in the past, such as during the Obama-era nuclear talks that resulted in Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
—Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for world power
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Japan and South Korea—both treaty allies of the United States in Northeast Asia—received new warships to bolster their sea power amid North Korea's ongoing naval modernization.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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In Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 campaign to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, the United States and its coalition allies unleashed massive land, air, and sea power.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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The power struggle unfolding in the far north does indeed have much in common with the original Great Game, the nineteenth-century competition between the era’s two great powers, the British and Russian Empires, over access to strategically and economically valuable territory in Central Asia.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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In each of these periodicals, the passage—unmoored from its original context among other beauty secrets—offered a lengthy and extremely specific taxonomy of the connection between hair and character: Coarse, black hair and dark skin signify great power of character, with a tendency to sensuality.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
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The Panther showed how the idea could also be understood as a gift—a superpower of sorts—that enables Black people to move freely between parallel, coexisting truths and realities.—
Ekow Eshun
July 11,
Literary Hub,
11 July 2025
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And like a superhero discovering her superpowers, Valade went on to build a lifelong career in hospitality, which has since included roles at Chili’s, Red Lobster, and Black Box Intelligence, thanks to a keen sense of relationship building.—
Don Yaeger,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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