How to Use great power in a Sentence

great power

noun
  • There is great power in the pause.
    — Jennifer Best, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But with great power comes great…heat!
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Raleigh has emerged as one of the game’s great power hitters.
    — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But with great power comes great fragility.
    — Sagar Gupta, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • There’s great power in being alone.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Our atomic bomb is the power to say no to the great powers.
    — Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Our atomic bomb is the power to say no to the great powers.
    — CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
  • But with great power comes great potential for harm.
    — J. Xavier Prochaska, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • In this view, great powers ought to be able to intervene in their own backyards.
    — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a great power in doing this, but also a great danger.
    — Big Think, 1 Apr. 2026
  • There are certain habits of behavior that all great powers share.
    — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 15 May 2026
  • In other words, great powers matter.
    — Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The term benevolent great power is an oxymoron.
    — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 15 May 2026
  • Many other great powers have fallen into this same trap – and at times in the same countries.
    — Will Walldorf, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2026
  • When neither great power embraces free trade, the rest of the world will simply go elsewhere.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2026
  • All great powers will protect their interests.
    — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 15 May 2026
  • This is a reality when dealing with great powers.
    — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 15 May 2026
  • This was the Steam Age; the admixture of fire and water was known to hold great power.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Polarity—how many great powers there are—matters, too.
    — Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Alliances feel shakier, trade is fragmenting, and great powers are jostling more openly.
    — Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The 6-foot-3-inch, 313-pound guard has shown great power throughout his 43 starts.
    — Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Modern China, then, is not just a great power but a superpower.
    — Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Sakaliene said that both sides of the Atlantic will need each other in a coming era of great power competition.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Okamoto and Murakami are both great power hitters and could be options at first or third base for teams this winter.
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Make sure to cast your bids wisely; after all, with great power comes great responsibility.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2025
  • From the beginning, the game held great power — Ottoman rulers even banned it, though Galatasaray players kept it alive.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 28 Nov. 2025
  • In short, this war has made Russia poorer, accelerating its demise as would-be great power.
    — Sergey Radchenko, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
  • But after losing a great power source known as the Omegahedron, Kara is sent to Earth to find it.
    — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 28 June 2026
  • Spheres of interest is the idea that great powers can dominate and control other nations in their spheres of interest.
    — Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • People also disagree about the requirements—what a country must do or possess—to be considered a great power.
    — Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2025

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