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. Brian Doherty:

   It's never more important to move slowly and carefully before granting the state new powers than in the wake of tragedies.

2. David Anber:

   I'll say this is that the powers to freeze and allow the banks to freeze assets and bank accounts and things of that nature without there being a warrant or any other, you know, judicial authorization, that's very unprecedented, it's unprecedented not only for Canada's, unprecedented for anywhere in the free world.

3. Zaki Baruti:

   The commission in and of itself has fair representation, It just needs the powers that be to begin to deal with the clearly defined issues. You have a disproportionate number of white officers working in the community, you have an overabundance of unemployment, you've got poor schooling.

4. Daniel Patrick Moynihan:

   Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.

5. Paul Weinhold:

   The idea surfaced frankly out of Salem( the state capital) that Salem and our legislature might be able to provide some support for Hayward, just as the idea came from Salem, the idea that it wasn't going to work came from Salem, so we took cues from the political powers that this was not going to fly.

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