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absolute power

NOUN

complete authority to act

Synonyms

WEAK

absolutism autarchy autocracy despotism dictatorship tyranny

Example Sentences

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Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo now hold absolute power over the country.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

The old adage is true: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026

But time and again the poisonous isolation that absolute power imposes on its wielders blunted the edge of their insight and degraded the capacity of their societies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

This is the type of monarchy embodied by Prince Carlo’s Bourbon ancestor, that very same Louis XIV who ruled by divine right and sought absolute power.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2024

Asif couldn’t understand how things worked here and the absolute power a family like the Khans held in a place like ours.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed