as in almighty
having unlimited power or authority
the nearly universal religious belief that God is omnipotent and omniscient
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Recent Examples of omnipotent
The reader is encouraged to root for Paul, but the story’s climax argues that the existence of an omnipotent despot spells bad news for a fragile interstellar empire.
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Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
The gods prove cruel but not omnipotent, and the modern settings exert their own redemptive pull; the final effect is that of a magic trick, in which the characters manage, in each film’s miraculous closing moments, to slip the bonds of tragedy.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
The room got quiet and sad—omnipotent AI was a horse of a different color.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2024
Oli Kay has touched on this today: the dying light of the days when a club’s manager was omnipotent.
—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024
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Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
The gods prove cruel but not omnipotent, and the modern settings exert their own redemptive pull; the final effect is that of a magic trick, in which the characters manage, in each film’s miraculous closing moments, to slip the bonds of tragedy.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
The room got quiet and sad—omnipotent AI was a horse of a different color.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2024
Oli Kay has touched on this today: the dying light of the days when a club’s manager was omnipotent.
—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for omnipotent
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Good for them — or, more accurately, good for CBS, which is hoping the Globes continue to draw decent viewership, even when airing against the almighty NFL.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
6 Jan. 2025
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By Rachael O'Connor Life and Trends Reporter Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member news article 0 A family were left concerned after their daughter's request to be her teacher's assistant during summer school turned into an almighty row with the faculty's administration.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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Despite attracting interest from several bidders all over the world, including two sovereign wealth funds, the 69-car collection found a new owner in Mark Mateschitz, the only son of the late Austrian billionaire and Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz.—
Yara Elshebiny,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds and high-net-worth individuals are traditional investors in these private markets.—
Stephanie Dhue,Sharon Epperson,
CNBC,
11 Mar. 2025
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Spanish regulators followed a long-standing national tradition of vesting regulatory authority in a single all-powerful administrator, the Bank of Spain, which left the country with no mechanism for correcting policy mistakes.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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The very principle that the country would not be ruled by an all-powerful king was foundational to the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed in the Constitution, the latter of which was hammered out during a contentious convention in 1787.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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This divine/human analogy, recalling La vie de Jésus, is a splendidly esoteric conceit.—
Armond White,
National Review,
14 Mar. 2025
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Its stunning green color comes from the combination of the diverse ingredients that not only look beautiful but taste divine.—
Aly Walansky,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Omnipotent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omnipotent. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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