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great power

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Recent Examples of great power By contrast, the leaders of the United States, both Democrats and Republicans, have not worked out an equally comprehensive long-term strategy for managing the return of China as a great power. — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 15 May 2026 Most Americans, however, were not touched by the shadow of great power games or the political and legal struggles playing out on Capitol Hill. — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026 Another lesson to be learned from Iran is that wars at this level, involving a great power and a lower-tier one, can’t always be tidy operations that end when a president is snatched by special forces in the middle of the night. — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 10 May 2026 His aversion to seeing the deficit widen further on the back of a bigger military bill highlights a phenomenon observed by historian Niall Ferguson, who has said any great power that spends more on debt servicing than on defense risks ceasing to be a great power. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 2 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for great power

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George Washington knew his forces could not win the American Revolutionary War without some measure of sea power.

— Christopher Magra, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
Iran’s conventional navy warships might be largely destroyed, but analysts say that’s never where its true sea power lay.

— Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 8 May 2026

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As nations everywhere compete to increase drone arsenals and build shields with counter-drone technology to protect their forces on earth, major world powers are battling to project power in space both to guard assets and threaten adversaries.

— Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, reached in 2015 between Iran and world powers including the United States, was designed to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

— Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 15 June 2026

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While the Dalai Lama has served as an outspoken advocate for democracy and human rights, that moral authority may now be co-opted by an authoritarian superpower.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026
The 2024 launch mirrored the testing the United States conducts for its own ballistic missile fleet, which experts viewed as an assertion of China’s growing superpower status.

— Huizhong Wu, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

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