How to Use superpower in a Sentence
superpower
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The acid in buttermilk is the key to its superpowers in the kitchen.
—Carly Westerfield, Bon Appétit, 27 Sep. 2023
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The pups are back on the big screen with new superpowers and a new adventure.
—Tanay Howard, Parents, 28 Sep. 2023
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The first person that needs to believe in your superpower is you.
—Luciana Paulise, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
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The only slippery banana on the show is the superpowers.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
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Yet through the support of an emerging space superpower, Russia still has plans for the moon.
—WIRED, 20 Mar. 2023
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Explore the World of Hip-Hop Over five decades, hip-hop has grown from a new art form to a culture-defining superpower.
—Salamishah Tillet, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
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But if Russia, the erstwhile superpower, does lose its war in Ukraine, will that end Putin's grip on power?
—Peter Weber, The Week, 23 Jan. 2023
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Your 'superpowers' are the strengths that distinctly set you apart.
—William Arruda, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
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With a rising China, who is to say the U.S. wants to engage in—much less win—a war with another superpower?
—WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
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More about Jenna Wortham Over five decades, hip-hop has grown from a new art form to a culture-defining superpower.
—Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
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They’re made to help the 19-year-old feel speedy and powerful on the court—after all, the Marvel mega-fan says her ideal superpower would be super-speed.
—Amanda Lucci, Women's Health, 28 Aug. 2023
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My superpower is believing in teenagers, thanks to Colleen, who believed in me.
—Catherine Pearson, New York Times, 9 May 2024
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At their in-person wedding welcome party for about 80 guests, with fire pits and s’mores in Pescadero, Calif., a friend read a poem about superpowers.
—Perri Ormont Blumberg, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
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A lot has happened since then to ratchet up tensions between the superpowers.
—Colleen Long and Aamer Madhani, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
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The comments are at odds with the government’s ambitions to turn the UK into a life-sciences superpower.
—Lisa Pham, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2023
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To be sure, under Trump, the United States was hardly a passive superpower.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2024
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The fact is that the economic war between these two superpowers has only intensified in the past 12 months—and the stakes are only rising.
—Ram Charan, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
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Chaoui passed away in August 2020, yet her superpowers carry on.
—BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
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Largely gone too are the 1990s oligarchs who made fortunes wheeling and dealing in the chaos of a collapsing superpower.
—Fox News, 7 June 2024
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The world’s lone superpower has been unable to protect one of the most important commercial arteries on Earth from a band of third-world rebels.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 19 Dec. 2023
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This franchise has faltered in the past when 20th Century Fox tried to produce several movies about the group of friends who gain superpowers during a trip to space.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 28 July 2024
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Although both superpowers and neighbors like Pakistan and Iran intervened for their own ends, at heart this was a civil war fought by Afghans against Afghans for control of the state.
—Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
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Both men vowed to work toward easing tensions between the two superpowers.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
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Ben Attia keeps these musings oblique, and, to the benefit of the film’s mystique, refuses to engage with the mechanics of Rafik’s superpower or with its source.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023
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Acting like there is no tomorrow can be a true superpower.
—Gary Drenik, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
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That support comes in the form of superpowers (naturally).
—Joshua Medintz, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2023
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Her ability to see the pain of our human experience and not run in the other direction is a superpower.
—Liz Plosser, Women's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
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Exhibition-making is DAM’s superpower, and this is where the merger should pay off.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024
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Few properties can speak to both serious golfers and beach lovers at the same time, but that’s Waldorf-Astoria Monarch Beach’s superpower.
—John Vorwald, Robb Report, 15 June 2024
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Jealousy, worship, idolatry, obsession, love, all these things can be the result of this kind of superpower that a character can have.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2024
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