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authority
noun as in power, control
Strongest matches
Strong matches
ascendancy, authorization, beef, charge, clout, command, credit, domination, dominion, edge, esteem, goods, guts, influence, juice, jump, license, mastery, might, permission, permit, pizazz, pow, powerhouse, prerogative, prestige, punch, right, ropes, say, say-so, steam, strength, stuff, supremacy, sway, warrant, weight, word
Weak matches
leg up, might and main, strong arm, upper hand, what it takes, whip hand
noun as in expert, animate or inanimate
Strong matches
arbiter, aristocrat, Bible, boss, brains, brass, buff, CEO, connoisseur, czar, egghead, establishment, exec, executive, feds, governor, guru, kingfish, kingpin, pro, professional, professor, pundit, scholar, specialist, textbook, upstairs, veteran, virtuoso, whiz, wizard
Weak matches
big cheese, big shot, big wig, city hall, front office, ivory dome, power elite, top brass, top dog, top hand
Example Sentences
Ramaswamy has still gone further, asking to retract appropriations to programs whose congressional authority has lapsed—which include resources like veterans’ health care—and basically do a sort of Twitter Files–style “exposé” of budgetary allowances.
Let’s also be real here: Elon will probably hold much of the authority, as he is just too much of an egomaniac to cede any public control.
That’s why, he thought, the immigration fight had to be taken up inside the conservation movement itself, by what is viewed as America’s most prominent environmental organization, an organization that would have the moral authority to bring difficult messages to the public.
Northgate High School and Ormiston Endeavour Academy, previously Thurleston High School, are in negotiations with the authority about taking on more pupils.
The authority said, alongside the cost concerns, it believed falling birth rates across Suffolk and nationally meant there could be too few students attending in the future, potentially making a new school "financially unsustainable."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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