Definitions for Powers
pow·ers

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1. powersverb

   Third person singular simple present form of to power.

2. powersnoun

   Plural form of power.

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1. Powers

   Powers is an American creator-owned police procedural comic book series by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Avon Oeming. The series' first volume was published by Image Comics from 2000 to 2004. In 2004 the series moved to Marvel Comics as a part of its Icon imprint. Combining the genres of superhero fantasy, crime noir and the police procedural, the series follows the lives of two homicide detectives, Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim, assigned to investigate cases involving people with superhuman abilities, who are referred to colloquially as "powers".

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1. powersnoun

   Plural noun or verb form of the word power.

   The powers in authority decided to put new legislation in place demanded by the people by order of priority.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on July 5, 2016  

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1. POWERS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Powers is ranked #336 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Powers surname appeared 91,970 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 31 would have the surname Powers.
   
   89.6% or 82,405 total occurrences were White.
   5.1% or 4,736 total occurrences were Black.
   2.3% or 2,198 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.6% or 1,518 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.6% or 598 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.5% or 506 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Powers' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1518

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Powers' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2728

How to pronounce Powers?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Powers in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Powers in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Powers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Powers in a Sentence

1. Donald Trump:

   As I said today and many times before, 'I have GREAT confidence in MY intelligence people', however, I also recognize that in order to build a brighter future, we cannot exclusively focus on the past - as the world's two largest nuclear powers, we must get along!

2. Eric Sayers:

   When China sees that it can get away with these types of actions with little cost - as they did all through 2015 and 2016 - it only makes it more likely they will keep pressing, china sees its participation in the exercise as a sign of its acceptance among the world's maritime powers but Beijing should not be allowed to militarize this open maritime domain and still be honored as a welcomed member of the maritime community.

3. Douglas MacArthur:

   The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

4. White House:

   A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20, my focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of powers. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.

5. Brett Guthrie:

   It is long overdue for President Biden to end the COVID-19 public health emergency and relinquish the emergency powers that he just renewed again, president Biden’s inaction and lack of transparency on this are unacceptable.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Powers
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Powers
3. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html