powerhouse
Example Sentences
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But at the college level, the powerhouses typically remained the powerhouses while schools like Indiana were their doormats.
Those two guys became an advertising powerhouse with ads popping up on late night shows, soap operas, billboards, and radio waves.
From Los Angeles Times
Tucked in south-western Ukraine, Odesa was an economic powerhouse before the war.
From BBC
The transaction would put the storied Hollywood studio behind “Mission: Impossible” and “The Godfather” under the same ownership as the powerhouse that brought the Harry Potter series and “Casablanca” to the big screen.
The Dodgers can operate this way because under the ownership of Guggenheim Partners CEO Mark Walter, they have developed into a financial powerhouse unlike anything baseball has ever seen.
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