powerful
adjective
having or exerting great power or force.
powerfully
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a word derived from
powerful.
Example Sentences
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In imagining her disturbed perceptions, the novel shows the old dog’s circumscribed world transfigured by long forgotten yearnings and powerfully altered understandings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
In our demonizing present, the story of such a pioneering truth-teller speaks powerfully to the needs of our blended American future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The very history he so powerfully invokes to explain the 14th Amendment’s origins often becomes, in his jurisprudence, a reason to limit rather than enlarge its reach.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Yet the trade could work as powerfully in reverse.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
“Among other things, it is powerfully easy for a haint or a decent rootworker to reverse a spell back onto you. And that’s something I don’t want to have to deal with.”
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
