powerful
Example Sentences
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Here, a slumber party of the rich and powerful wants to zap their misdeeds from memory so they can get a good night’s sleep.
From Los Angeles Times
“For managers concerned with sustainable productivity, giving people uninterrupted time away from work can be a powerful lever.”
Much of what he writes in this piece—on the dangers of crazy people and rogue regimes accessing powerful AI tools, and on the ill-advisability of selling semiconductors to China—is perceptive and interesting.
But I got used to that too—the callousness of powerful people and the way they didn’t care what was fair.
From Literature
In all of this, he’s getting at something powerful but hard to quantify that we all perhaps have felt, if only briefly, at one time or another.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
