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power user

American  
[pau-er yooz-er] / ˈpaʊ ər ˌjuz ər /

noun

power users plural
  1. 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.

  2. a person, industry, appliance, etc., that consumes a lot of electricity.


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He drives a Tesla and is active on X. When Grok came out in late 2023, he downloaded it and played around, but never became a power user.

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 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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