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world power

noun

a nation, organization, or institution so powerful that it is capable of influencing or changing the course of world events.

world power

a state that possesses sufficient power to influence events throughout the world

First recorded in 1880–85

The decline of America as both an ideal and a world power is marked by such moments.

That awakening, he says, led to a 180-page term paper on the balance of world power.

But in gaining the glories of the world—power, fame and fortune—Gibson seemed to lose himself.

He is the author of The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the U.N. in the Era of American World Power.

In half their great effort against the world-power of Britain they had utterly failed.

From the first the mind of Buonaparte had been set on a struggle with this growing world-power.

World power or downfall was their formula; it gave their antagonists no alternative but a fight to a conclusive end.

Why does it always appear the minute a crowd is sufficiently powerful to dream of world-power?

The needle of the compass of progress has always pointed west; at least always since the Medo-Persian was the world-power.

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