power user
Americannoun
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Digital Technology. a digitally savvy person whose work, hobbies, or gaming involve regular use of many applications and sophisticated features, or a technophile who always insists on the best quality and most advanced performance.
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a person, industry, appliance, etc., that consumes a lot of electricity.
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When OpenAI was debating how to make its model’s personality more “fun,” Codex product lead Alexander Embiricos spotted a power user arguing on X that the model should actually be more terse and concise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
I talked to Victor Kapella, a ChatGPT and Perplexity power user.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026
Ansari’s TikTok videos aren’t so much a savvy strategy as they are the authentic output of a power user.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2024
Then came Elon Musk, the Tesla chief executive and Twitter power user who paid $44 billion in 2022 for the dubious honor of becoming poster-in-chief.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
This would mean considerable saving in fuel cost to the small power user, who now finds the liquid-fuel internal-combustion engine of commercial advantage.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Wilson, Herbert M.
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