hyperpower
Britishnoun
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an extremely powerful state that dominates all other states in every sphere of activity
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the power wielded by such a state
Example Sentences
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Two decades of Mr. Biden’s 50-odd years in public life were spent during the Cold War and a third during the 1990s with the United States as a hyperpower.
From New York Times
We would be the swaggering hyperpower.
From New York Times
The year was 1991 and the United States was suddenly the globe's lone superpower, its ultimate hyperpower, the last and greatest of its kind, the soon-to-be-indispensable nation.
From Salon
To be sure, the State Department was never a progressive bastion, not during the Cold War years nor in the era when America was the global hyperpower.
From Salon
The US is a hyperpower, issuer of the dollar, home to the biggest companies in the world.
From The Guardian
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