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. The Privacy International report:

   Pakistan's intelligence agencies have abused their communications surveillance powers, including by spying on opposition politicians and Supreme Court judges. Widespread Internet monitoring and censorship has also been used to target journalists, lawyers and activists.

2. Jerry Nadler:

   The highest of high crimes is abuse of power. It occurs when a President uses his official powers to serve his own personal, selfish interests at the expense of the public good.

3. Neil Gorsuch:

   Senator, he has no idea how I’d rule in that case and, senator, I’m not going to say anything here that’s going to give anybody any idea how I’d rule in any case like that that could come before the Supreme Court or my court on the 10th Circuit, it would be grossly improper of a judge to do that. It would be a violation of the separation of powers and judicial independence if someone sitting at this table, in order to get confirmed, had to make promises or commitments about how they’d rule in a case that’s currently pending and likely to make its way to the Supreme Court.

4. Jerry Nadler:

   The lawyers tell us that in weighing the equities between the competing claims of the executive and the legislative branches, we have very substantial powers, the congressional power is at its zenith in an impeachment inquiry. How much of a difference — it is a different question.

5. Danielle Weston:

   The censure resolutions would strip us of the powers and duties bestowed upon us by the voters and would violate the law.

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