puissance
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Brandi Carlile, tearing through her song “The Joke” with folk puissance, was the most emotional and the all-around best performer of the night.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2019
The puissance does not count towards the leading rider award.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2012
Pepsi-Cola embraced the puissance of “Generation Next,” the New York Mets used “Generation K” to play up the prospects of three young pitchers and Parade, the Sunday newspaper magazine, has run articles about “Generation Wired.”
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2012
Kraut said in an interview she may also enter the 8-year-old Dutch warmblood in the $25,000 puissance competition, which is a high jump class for horses.
From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2011
"He has that crude quality of force which sometimes puts to shame the more nearly even puissance of a systematic training."
From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Read, Opie Percival
Vocabulary lists containing puissance
Henry IV, Part 2
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