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powerhouse

[pou-er-hous] / ˈpaʊ ərˌhaʊs /




















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Internationally, Ukraine hardly has the reputation of a winemaking powerhouse.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

Regardless of ranking, the kingdom is a crude-exporting powerhouse and now sees its export capacity severely curtailed.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

Powall's Colen says Europe, and the Netherlands in particular, is an "innovation powerhouse", and battery technology offers a chance for the continent to make an impact, if the appetite for the risk is there.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

Western or Japanese alternatives can cost up to five times more than Chinese components, leaving defense contractors looking to Taiwan—an electronics powerhouse that can offer a middle ground.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Sure, I pictured myself on that television screen, wearing a bomb-fancy dress, tearing up the stage with some grand, powerhouse song, and in the end having the crown placed on my head.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

Hong Kong is "less relevant for China's national tech ambitions" than mainland powerhouses like Shenzhen, said Gary Ng, a senior economist at Natixis.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

Quebec and Ontario provinces in eastern Canada, the country's economic powerhouses, are especially expected to feel the pinch, they said.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

Arsenal want to be one of the global powerhouses in world football.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Roosevelt, a football enthusiast who feared the game might be abolished, summoned leaders from the college football powerhouses of the day—Harvard, Yale and Princeton—to the White House and demanded reform.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

As the fifteenth century drew on, the various Franco-Flemish courts of the Dukes of Burgundy became the artistic powerhouses of northern Europe, and it was here that Dunstaple’s new cocktail of chords really took off.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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