high-powered
Example Sentences
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She has a high-powered job and is a wife and mum.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Residents have long complained about a proliferation of high-powered cars racing down the city’s major thoroughfares, peeling out and doing doughnuts, and drivers revving their engines into the early-morning hours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Before JD Vance became vice president, Usha Vance was a high-powered attorney in Ohio, and definitely more successful in the legal field than her husband, who she met at Yale Law.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
The White House urgently needs security upgrades to defend against modern threats like drone attacks, missiles, high-powered weapons and cyberattacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
On the far right was the scout who recruited for an athletically high-powered parochial school.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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