world power
noun
: a political unit (such as a nation or state) powerful enough to affect the entire world by its influence or actions
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For decades, many regional or world powers ostracized the Assad regime, tried unsuccessfully to change it, or worked with it—or around it—to pursue their own ends.
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Volker Perthes, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2025
That initiative saw the U.S. pull out of a nuclear-limiting deal between Iran and world powers brokered by the Obama administration.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
In 2018, Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers that limited the country’s nuclear program in return for an easing of U.S. economic sanctions.
—Dan De Luce, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025
Annalena Baerbock of Germany and her French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, arrived in Damascus for the first such trip in years on behalf on the European Union, as world powers have begun building ties with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamist group that leads the new Syrian government.
—Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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Volker Perthes, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2025
That initiative saw the U.S. pull out of a nuclear-limiting deal between Iran and world powers brokered by the Obama administration.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
In 2018, Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers that limited the country’s nuclear program in return for an easing of U.S. economic sanctions.
—Dan De Luce, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025
Annalena Baerbock of Germany and her French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, arrived in Damascus for the first such trip in years on behalf on the European Union, as world powers have begun building ties with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamist group that leads the new Syrian government.
—Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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“World power.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/world%20power. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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