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  • verb To engage in a power trip

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Examples

  • He was even more noisomely aristocratic than Ignatieff, an intellectually arrogant man on a perpetual power-trip, a cynical, soulless manipulator.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • It seems to me that forcing such utterances is little more than a political power-trip.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Yeah, I think the pharmaceuticals and insurance companies are on a power-trip.

    Obama praises first health care bill passage 2009

  • During Maximilian's brief, but ill-fated, power-trip, Mathieu de Fossey left Mexico, returning in 1866 to France, where he died four years later.

    Did You Know? Mathieu de Fossey 2008

  • During Maximilian's brief, but ill-fated, power-trip, Mathieu de Fossey left Mexico, returning in 1866 to France, where he died four years later.

    Did You Know? Mathieu de Fossey 2008

  • Didn't matter to Simon Blint who, according to Hawk, went all aggressive and power-trip happy, even trying to eject his companion.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • "We're not being screwed over simply because some politician is on a personal power-trip although, God knows, enough are, but because they know what's coming down the road and they are making the preparations necessary to maintain control over society, and the place of their class within it."

    The Prime Minister's New Year Message Translated in to Plain English Henry North London 2009

  • If you decide to do this - and you have even the faintest hint of sensitivity - your power-trip will be constantly undermined by creeping unease straight off an early Hitchcock movie, as you're aware of the increasing resentment, jealousy and frustration simmering away below the deceptively placid surface.

    Archive 2009-06-01 juliette 2009

  • If you decide to do this - and you have even the faintest hint of sensitivity - your power-trip will be constantly undermined by creeping unease straight off an early Hitchcock movie, as you're aware of the increasing resentment, jealousy and frustration simmering away below the deceptively placid surface.

    FRIENDS - The One With The Hidden Agenda juliette 2009

  • We're not being screwed over simply because some politician is on a personal power-trip although, God knows, enough are, but because they know what's coming down the road and they are making the preparations necessary to maintain control over society, and the place of their class within it.

    The Prime Minister's New Year Message Translated in to Plain English Henry North London 2009

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