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superpower
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Wikipedia
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SuperPower is a 2002 political simulation computer game . SuperPower was designed by GolemLabs and published by DreamCatcher Interactive, debuting on March 28, 2002 for the PC. SuperPower 2 was released in 2004.
WordNet
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n. a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world [syn: world power , major power , great power , power ]
Wiktionary
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n. 1 (lb en obsolete) Electricity generated in a large plant that is tied into a regional network, on a larger scale than was common in the early years of commercial electricity production. 2 Excessive or superior power. 3 A sovereign state with dominant ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1944, in geopolitical sense of "nation with great interest and ability to exert force in worldwide theaters of conflict," from super- + power (n.). The word itself is attested in physical (electrical power) senses from 1922.
Usage examples of superpower.
Moreover, the United States is not some rogue superpower determined to do what it wants regardless of who it threatens or angers.
He would do everything he could to show that an invasion was unnecessary and that the United States was a rogue superpower determined to crush any Muslim state that got out of line.
Maybe their superpower was the strange ability to beat somebody to a pulp if he tried to escape.
Then it occurred to me that he had large, powerful employees whose superpower was to make life unpleasant for guys who things occurred to.
A superpower is a superpower even if it only allows you to drive a truck better than anybody else.
The driver was always an android, probably with the superpower of finding places to park.
But the Soviet Union was never a superpower because of its booming economy.
He seemed to have acquired, as Sammy remarked, a superpower of his own: he had become a magnet for Germans.
Folks thought it would be a great way to encourage superpower cooperation.
Meanwhile, thanks largely to support from the United States, Israel has become a kind of superpower, able to defy its entire region and Europe as well.
One beneficial outcome of this conflict is the demise of the superpower system - a relic of days bygone and best forgotten.
After Iran took its place in the civilized world as a superpower once again.
Either Blossom was hiding her superpower, or her human genes had proved dominant and she was just your everyday, average, appealing-as-all-hell woman.
According to his analysis, Blossom carried a rare genetic mutation that had prevented her superpower from manifesting with the first influx of puberty hormones, as was typical with super offspring.
A number of these assessments base their conclusions on the experience between the United States and the Soviet Union during the latter half of the Cold War, when both superpowers recognized that there was no possible gain from aggression that was worth the risk of an escalation to nuclear warfare and so generally refrained from any provocative moves toward each other.