Usage of "powerful" | TermGallery

Displaying superhuman strength or power.

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(Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree.

Having great power or force or potency or effect.

Usage of powerful in English

I believe those who are most powerful use their power for good. 
 Ebony 

Skelos is the second powerful legislative leader to stand trial this year. 
 Reuters 

Iran is more powerful today than if Saddam been left in power. 
 The Guardian 

For that to actually happen, powerful countries need to be held accountable. 
 The Guardian 

A new Europe, he thought ironically, a powerful federation of dynamic states. 
 The Young Lions 

Vaccines are probably the most powerful public health intervention available to us. 
 The Guardian 

However, researchers said that vaccines could prove more powerful than natural immunity. 
 Independent.ie 

The powerful centre presents a clear and present danger to Ireland's hopes. 
 The Irish Times 

They need more powerful incentives to work with people when it's possible. 
 Reuters 

In those days, whatever powerful people said and did was considered news. 
 The new yorker 

NMR methods are therefore powerful aids to understanding plant metabolism and physiology. 
 Pubmed 

Europeans want mainly to balance relations between powerful West and rising East. 
 The Irish Times 

A weak government is an easy target when powerful groups come calling. 
 The Irish Times 

Men who are truly powerful, however, view threats as yet another vulnerability. 
 Paul of Dune 

She used that powerful platform to create the evening's most talked-about moment. 
 Reuters 

Eleven years ago Oliver Stone made a powerful motion picture called JFK. 
 The Guardian 

Powerful through the time

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