hyperpower

And Cheney wanted to kick around an Arab country after 9/11 to prove that America was a hyperpower.

The United States in its days as a hyperpower made a series of moves to extend our perimeter of influence deep into Russia’s near-abroad.

Two decades of Mr. Biden’s 50-odd years in public life were spent during the Cold War and a third during the 1990s with the United States as a hyperpower.

We would be the swaggering hyperpower.

The year was 1991 and the United States was suddenly the globe's lone superpower, its ultimate hyperpower, the last and greatest of its kind, the soon-to-be-indispensable nation.