as in almighty
having unlimited power or authority
the nearly universal religious belief that God is omnipotent and omniscient
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Recent Examples of omnipotent
The gods prove cruel but not omnipotent, and the modern settings exert their own redemptive pull; the final effect is that of a magic trick, in which the characters manage, in each film’s miraculous closing moments, to slip the bonds of tragedy.
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
The room got quiet and sad—omnipotent AI was a horse of a different color.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2024
Oli Kay has touched on this today: the dying light of the days when a club’s manager was omnipotent.
—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024
For decades during and after the Cold War, Turkey’s secularist devlet baba was seen as omnipotent, powerful, and almighty.
—Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2023
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
The room got quiet and sad—omnipotent AI was a horse of a different color.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2024
Oli Kay has touched on this today: the dying light of the days when a club’s manager was omnipotent.
—Phil Hay, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024
For decades during and after the Cold War, Turkey’s secularist devlet baba was seen as omnipotent, powerful, and almighty.
—Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2023
See all Example Sentences for omnipotent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for omnipotent
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But has Vin de France, like the Impressionists’ salons, contributed to the decline of the establishment, in this case, the almighty appellation system?—
Anna Lee C. Iijima,
Bon Appétit,
22 Jan. 2025
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That may bring a halt to the Boston Girl’s letter-writing campaign against the almighty adverb.—
John Nogowski,
Hartford Courant,
17 Jan. 2025
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The event is backed by the Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which Bloomberg estimates holds $925 billion in assets under management.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
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Thames Water is part of a group of companies known as the Kemble Water Group that are owned by a consortium of institutional shareholders – mostly pension funds and sovereign wealth funds.—
Emma Graham,April Roach,
CNBC,
19 Feb. 2025
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Because Mike Madigan -- legendarily grimy Illinois House speaker and all-powerful master of Democratic state politics until his 2021 resignation from office -- has finally been convicted by a federal jury of ten felonies: bribery, conspiracy, and wire fraud, among other matters.—
Jeffrey Blehar,
National Review,
13 Feb. 2025
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In games like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, where the protagonist is at an all-powerful peak following the events of the previous story, the narrative requires Link to lose everything (including an arm) and start back at square one.—
George Yang,
Rolling Stone,
3 Feb. 2025
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So, instead, in that film, the music comes to represent something like the divine spirit or these spirits that occupy the film in a way.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025
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Placido is an Italian singer and actress, so she’s used to the divine food found in the region.—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Omnipotent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omnipotent. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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