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. Clement Stone:

   Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

2. Bruce Blakeman:

   I believe the determination whether a defendant is a flight risk or a danger to society should be made by a judge on a case-by-case basis, it’s been that way for over 200 years. I don’t know why we’re changing it now. It worked well. I believe it is a violation of the separation of powers for the legislature to take that power away from the judiciary, and I would like to see it back in the hands of the judiciary.

3. Robert Mueller:

   With respect to whether the President can be found to have obstructed justice by exercising his powers under Article II of the Constitution, we concluded that Congress One has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice.

4. Francois Perol:

   Brexit is a bigger risk, american democracy has strong institutions and counter-powers.

5. James Burnham:

   They dont have the political will to do it. If the House doesnt care enough to use the political powers it has, it just runs to the court.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

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