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Very powerful, breaking within ten seconds (7)

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I believe the answer is:

intense

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'very powerful' is the definition.
'intense' can be an answer for 'powerful' (intense can mean powerful or profound). I am not sure about the 'very' bit.

'breaking within ten seconds' is the wordplay.
'breaking' indicates putting letters inside.
'within' becomes 'in'.
'ten' becomes 'tene' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'seconds' becomes 's'.
'in'+'tene'='intene'
'intene' going around 's' is 'INTENSE'.

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(Other definitions for intense that I've seen before include "Strongly-felt" , "Showing strong feelings or opinions" , "In an extreme degree" , "Strong in quality or degree - perhaps a feeling" , "Strong in degree or emotion" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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