How to Use omnipotence in a Sentence

omnipotence

noun
  • Most sinister of all is money’s bid for omnipotence in our lives.
    — Cathi Douglas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
  • They are often convinced of the omnipotence of their knowledge.
    — Gregory Stebbins, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • His career was the source of his feelings of omnipotence and grandiosity.
    — Laura Bradley, VanityFair.com, 21 Apr. 2017
  • God’s omnipotence is never limited or on pause.
    — Kyle Schaberg, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Perhaps the biggest cause for optimism is that this time people don’t have much cause for faith in the omnipotence of the state.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
  • So toss the myth of western military omnipotence onto the mounting pile of ripoff schemes that have aged badly.
    — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The effect is a feeling of omnipotence cut through with utter helplessness.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Robert doesn't quite give her gods the magical omnipotence of their predecessors.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 June 2021
  • Needless to say, there is no longer any single television impresario with that kind of omnipotence.
    — Lisa Birnbach, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
  • But that does not give the US president sudden omnipotence.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Shifting to a content-first company isn't about calling the shots; don't expect omnipotence.
    — Melissa Zehner, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • And yet, the omnipotence and omnipresence of divine Love are enough to adjust the circumstances.
    — Lynn G. Jackson, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Today feels like a rude awakening, given that the machine’s omnipotence and hair-trigger use was on display only a short while ago.
    — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Boys and men are taught that masculinity means an absurd omnipotence, mastery, comfort, and prowess.
    — Christine Smallwood, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
  • His elimination of the term limits that would have required him to step down in 2022 did not grant him omnipotence.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 24 Aug. 2019
  • The director is often powerful to the point of omnipotence, but no one except special groups of insiders will ever think of the show as his.
    — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2017
  • This cult of whiteness, its essentiality and omnipotence, is the straw that stirs and spreads the nationalist pixie dust.
    — C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Slide him into the old Ernie Adams role as the unofficial director of football omnipotence.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • If applied to security systems and other live video feeds, this sort of technology gives those with the power to search through it a sort of instant, god-like omnipotence.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2017
  • But sadly for researchers (and happily for players), that level of omniscience and omnipotence isn’t in the offing, at least in this century.
    — Adam Willis, Slate Magazine, 2 May 2017
  • Those illusions died extremely hard, but the events of this past weekend should put to rest any lingering beliefs in American omnipotence.
    — David Faris, The Week, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The impunity solidified Moshe’s belief in his own omnipotence.
    — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2018
  • The data are sobering for believers in managerial omnipotence.
    — The Economist, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Declare its omnipotence over individual men that predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth.
    — Fox News, 12 June 2018
  • Russia analysts who are of the (prevailing) view that Putin approaches omnipotence ask what his realpolitik long con in Donbas can be.
    — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Barthes injects the expectation of a dark turn into thriller territory once the omnipotence of the corporate overlords is established.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2023
  • This is when McLaren’s on-point chassis tuning and dynamic dexterity conspire to give even middling drivers a sense of omnipotence.
    — Karl Brauer, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The Dodgers are experiencing their first prolonged slump, and that feeling of omnipotence in Los Angeles may be fading away.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2017
  • The truck executed these maneuvers without complaint, providing a level of confidence bordering on a sense of omnipotence.
    — Karl Brauer, Robb Report, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Disdain, however, for the fan base, the media and anyone who questions the Arkansas athletic department’s omnipotence, is beyond the pale.
    — Eric Bolin, ajc, 4 Nov. 2017

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