Example Sentences

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Leaders in quantum computing envision a future when the ultrapowerful machines can “talk” to each other across long distances.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

While that remains a fantasy, scientists have successfully created micro-scale time crystals for years — not for powering intergalactic spaceships but for energizing ultrapowerful computers.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2021

That’s not, however, what Ispace is seeking—its ads would basically be photo-ops for companies that want the lunar landscape to be a backdrop for their logos and couldn’t be seen from Earth without ultrapowerful instruments.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2017

When ultrapowerful lasers struck a diamond anvil, they instantly vaporized the diamond—but that was just a side effect of the experiment pictured above.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 23, 2015

And if I somehow managed to make it past all of them and reach the crypt, the ultrapowerful lich could kill my avatar in seconds, just by looking at him.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline