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Wiktionary

  1. powersverb

    Third person singular simple present form of to power.

  2. powersnoun

    Plural form of power.

Wikidata

  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".

Editors Contribution

  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  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  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

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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. Brad Adams:

    Thailand's friends abroad should not be fooled by this obvious sleight of hand by the junta leader to replace martial law with a constitutional provision that effectively provides unlimited and unaccountable powers.

  2. Vauvenargues:

    Consciousness of our powers augments them.

  3. Ted Cruz:

    First Donald Trump antagonized the Republican establishment with his proposals on immigration. Then he irritated some with his stands on trade and Social Security. Now Trump is preparing a tax proposal that will again set him far apart from the party’s powers-that-be. The problem for the establishment is that Trump’s positions on all three issues are more in line with the majority of American voters than the establishment’s preferred policies.

  4. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz:

    Super Tuesday, one of two things is going to happen. Right now, Donald Trump has enormous momentum. He's won three out of four states, if he continues with that momentum and powers through and wins everywhere on Super Tuesday, he could easily be unstoppable. And I think that would be a grave mistake both for the Republican Party and for the country.

  5. Brian Doherty:

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

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