powerhouse
Electricity. a generating station.
a person, group, team, or the like, having great energy, strength, or potential for success.
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How to use powerhouse in a sentence
The most notable of those is the cancellation of South by Southwest, the annual music, film, TV, and technology festival that serves as a significant financial powerhouse for the city.
How the coronavirus outbreak is roiling the film and entertainment industries | Alissa Wilkinson | September 11, 2020 | VoxKnown for most of its history as a software powerhouse, Microsoft has certainly upped its hardware game under chief product officer Panos Panay.
Review of the Microsoft Surface Duo folding phone: Very pretty but just how useful is it? | Aaron Pressman | September 10, 2020 | FortuneThe second-most populous country is a drug manufacturing powerhouse.
More than manufacturing: India’s homegrown COVID vaccines could transform its pharma industry | Naomi Xu Elegant | September 6, 2020 | FortuneAs FiveThirtyEight’s Josh Hermsmeyer has detailed, NFL defenses are much less consistent both within and across seasons than their counterparts on offense, which has led many a defensive powerhouse to wonder where the magic went the following year.
Newton Can Replace Brady, But Can The Pats Replace Half Of Their Defense? | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | September 3, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightThe companies at the center of the digital universe are now powerhouses of the modern era—worth trillions and nearly impossible to avoid in daily life.
Moore’s Law Lives: Intel Says Chips Will Pack 50 Times More Transistors | Jason Dorrier | August 23, 2020 | Singularity Hub
Because the National Football League is a cultural and economic powerhouse.
The group was founded in 2008 by operatives who would later have ties to the dark money powerhouse Crossroads GPS.
I think Alysha Umphress doing “I Can Cook Too” is a powerhouse number.
Nigel Lythgoe on How to Save Reality TV, ‘On the Town,’ and ‘Brokeback Ballroom’ | Kevin Fallon | October 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUN Women has high hopes for Watson—to the point where they want to make her their next celebrity human-rights powerhouse.
From Hermione to U.N. Heroine: Emma Watson’s ‘Badass’ Transformation | Asawin Suebsaeng | September 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMacron excelled at France's elite schools, including the civil-servant powerhouse Ecole Nationale d'Administration.
This Scary-Smart New Minister of Economy Might Just Turn France Around | Tracy McNicoll | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCharlie was an engineer at the new nuclear powerhouse, just out of town.
The Planet Strappers | Raymond Zinke GallunThe whirr of flapping leathern bands and hum of dynamos from the powerhouse urged Stephen to be on.
Ulysses | James JoyceContinuous, untiring, the sounds suggested the unthinking vitality of a steam-engine or of a dynamo in a powerhouse.
Ben Blair | Will LillibridgeCaton and his men had spent the wait on Mercury working on the great generators in the powerhouse nose.
The Secret of the Ninth Planet | Donald Allen WollheimThe other men returned to the powerhouse with their shotguns and the fire axe, and telephoned to Bootstrap.
Space Platform | Murray Leinster
British Dictionary definitions for powerhouse
/ (ˈpaʊəˌhaʊs) /
an electrical generating station or plant
informal a forceful or powerful person or thing
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