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Discover LudwigThe phrase "once powerful" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe something or someone who was strong or influential in the past but may no longer hold the same level of power or influence. Example: The once powerful empire had fallen into decline and was now struggling to maintain its territory.
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These once powerful men did not know "how to leave their active association with power".
It was James Baker, the once powerful statesman.
The experience is at once powerful and powerfully confounding.
However these once powerful drugs encountered drug-resistant problem to the H5N1 and H1N1 flu.
One Batista company, OSX, fit with the government's goal of rebuilding Brazil's once powerful shipbuilding industry.
The soprano Patricia Racette was magnificent as the mother, her singing at once powerful and despairing.
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China has charged once-powerful former Railways Minister Liu Zhijun with corruption and abuse of power, state media has reported.
In August, he sidelined Egypt's once-powerful military by sacking its longtime leaders and taking away many of its powers.
The once-powerful Hungarian left has imploded.
A once-powerful organization, the A.A.U.
He has taken on once-powerful unions.
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