hard power
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Chinese officials and analysts have been candid in their assessments of U.S. hard power, impressed by a military they acknowledge remains the best in the world.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
No amount of royal soft power will reassure US generals worried about the UK's lack of hard power.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
Stubbs and O’Malley recommend investors ”stay aligned with hard power industries to benefit from fiscal support and to hedge AI disruption.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026
Senior Pentagon officials have expressed a commitment to rebuilding American hard power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
The voice of a woman, harsh, high, and angrily complaining—a voice with all the freshness and the melody gone, and with nothing but the hard power of it left—was the discordantly predominant sound.
From Armadale by Collins, Wilkie
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