omnipotence
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But by the time of his death, at age 100, the 2008 global financial crisis had recast his aura of technocratic omnipotence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The pope described the Kingdom of God as a "bulwark against that delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us and is becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive."
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
What it emphatically cannot mean is acceding to powerlessness in the face of a bunch of institutions that are working to make it seem as if their omnipotence is inevitable, or irrevocable, or constitutionally overdetermined.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
Mockery has often been a useful tool among the many needed to deflate the posture of omnipotence that actual and aspiring autocrats like to adopt.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2024
The same wind I’ve always felt my entire life—the Call of the Void—but now it surges not just before me but all around me with self-satisfied omnipotence.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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