extraordinary power
collocation in Englishmeaningsofextraordinaryandpower
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extraordinary
adjective
uk/ɪkˈstrɔː.dɪn.ər.i/us/ɪkˈstrɔːr.dən.er.i/
very unusual, special, unexpected, ...
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power
noun
uk/paʊər/us/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
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(Definition ofextraordinaryandpowerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theextraordinarypowerof the self metaphor is reflected in this conflation.
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That is anextraordinarypower.
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That is anextraordinarypowerto propose.
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This seems anextraordinarypowerto take.
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That would be anextraordinarypower.
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That is anextraordinarypowerto give.
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It is a mostextraordinarypowerto give.
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The power suggested there is really anextraordinarypower.
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On what conceivable grounds can thisextraordinarypowerbe justified?
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He has spoken of theirextraordinarypowerand so forth.
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They could use theextraordinarypowerin that tidal stream.
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This is, of course, a very serious andextraordinarypower.
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It is not, therefore, such anextraordinarypower.
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I have referred to it as anextraordinarypowerbecause such it is.
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In any case, why should the corporation have thisextraordinarypower?
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They appear to haveextraordinarypowerto influence the course of events.
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We have seen theextraordinarypowerof the battleships of the future—nuclear-powered submarines.
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I do not know whether it is unprecedented but it is certainly anextraordinarypower.
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It is anextraordinarypowerto deal with an extraordinary set of circumstances.
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That is theextraordinarypowerthat that institution has had for many years.
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There is no paper in which theextraordinarypowerof corporate culture and its current and future influence over our urban landscapes is observed or analysed in any detail.
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Mutabaruka does this withextraordinarypower, poetry.
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Surely that is anextraordinarypowerto give to the central authority as against the local authority.
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But with thisextraordinarypowerof absorption there was not joined anything in the way of discrimination.
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Above all, the new ingredient in the management of democracy is theextraordinarypowerof the media.
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