Example Sentences

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"With two countries of this size, both with a great-power psyche, it couldn't be any other way."

From BBC • May 20, 2026

If the latter proves more important, investors will need to broaden their approach—seeking resilience not in traditional havens, but in markets less exposed to the fiscal demands of great-power competition.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

If the latter proves more important, investors will need to broaden their approach—seeking resilience not in traditional havens, but in markets less exposed to the fiscal demands of great-power competition.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

But Europe’s consensus-based governance makes it ill suited for the new world of great-power competition, said Moritz Schularick, president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German economic think tank.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

Cycles of great-power rivalry, where leading states grasped ineffectively for hegemony, shaped the emergence of both dynastic empires and modern nations while testing statesmen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025