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  

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

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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. Sarit Golub:

   What PrEP is able to do is separate the act of prevention of HIV from the act of sexual intimacy, and to me, I think that is one of the tremendous powers of PrEP for individuals and for us as a broader community.

2. Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams:

   It is also a matter that seriously affects the separation of powers. This is an important matter of principle which affects all prosecutions, it is so important. I believe it needs the decision of an appeal court.

3. W. E. B. Du Bois:

   It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

4. Jason Miller:

   It is one of President Trump's super powers, president Trump understood very early on that social media, Twitter in particular, gave President Trump unvarnished access to the American people and President Trump supporters. What President Trump maximized was social media's ability to bypass the artificial conversation created by the mainstream media.

5. Norman Vincent Peale:

   Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

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