world power
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Often called the first modern president, TR expanded the office’s power and influence, wielding his clout to conserve public land, regulate corporations and bolster America’s status as a world power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
His Majesty’s Surge has “nicked” a spot on this week’s list to give an update on the Merry Land of Britain, an ancestral world power.
From Slate • May 25, 2024
Russia, the other major world power in Brics, has a different purpose for it.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2023
The 2008 Summer Olympics marked China’s rise as a world power.
From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2023
Similarly, America's emergence as the dominant world power in the 1940s could never have occurred if the United States had not established stable national institutions at the start that permitted the consolidation of the continent.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
