power user
Americannoun
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power users
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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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I talked to Victor Kapella, a ChatGPT and Perplexity power user.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026
Cue the race to be seen as a power user, which signifies being one of the humans getting the most out of new technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
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 is going to make every user a power user of Windows.”
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 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 Herbert M. Wilson
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