omnipotence
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The pope described the Kingdom of God as a "bulwark against that delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us and is becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive."
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
In Mr. Anderson’s account of the fall of Iran’s shah in 1979, both the Iranian government and most of the Americans on the ground have a false sense of American omnipotence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
What it emphatically cannot mean is acceding to powerlessness in the face of a bunch of institutions that are working to make it seem as if their omnipotence is inevitable, or irrevocable, or constitutionally overdetermined.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
People who scored higher on the scale had greater control, which correlated with lower measures of hallucination severity and lower perceived malevolence and omnipotence of the voices.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
The same wind I’ve always felt my entire life—the Call of the Void—but now it surges not just before me but all around me with self-satisfied omnipotence.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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A Brief History of Time
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