world power
noun
: a political unit (such as a nation or state) powerful enough to affect the entire world by its influence or actions
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But realists would be loath to undermine one of the greatest advantages the U.S. has long enjoyed as a world power—uncommonly warm relations with its closest neighbors.
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Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2025
For decades, many regional or world powers ostracized the Assad regime, tried unsuccessfully to change it, or worked with it—or around it—to pursue their own ends.
—Volker Perthes, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2025
That initiative saw the U.S. pull out of a nuclear-limiting deal between Iran and world powers brokered by the Obama administration.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
In 2018, Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers that limited the country’s nuclear program in return for an easing of U.S. economic sanctions.
—Dan De Luce, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025
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Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2025
For decades, many regional or world powers ostracized the Assad regime, tried unsuccessfully to change it, or worked with it—or around it—to pursue their own ends.
—Volker Perthes, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2025
That initiative saw the U.S. pull out of a nuclear-limiting deal between Iran and world powers brokered by the Obama administration.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
In 2018, Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers that limited the country’s nuclear program in return for an easing of U.S. economic sanctions.
—Dan De Luce, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025
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“World power.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/world%20power. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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