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empire

[em-pahyuhr, om-peer] / ˈɛm paɪər, ɒmˈpɪər /


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Although Joyce helped him build his empire, her finances are dependent on him.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Hearst used his newspaper empire to crusade against animal experimentation and cruelty.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Now he’s married with seven kids and presides over something of an online personal-finance empire that includes an app, books, workshops and social-media communities.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

The company has largely offset struggles in its beef business with stable profits elsewhere in its sprawling protein empire.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Mataoka lived in the central town of the Powhatan alliance, a small empire in tidewater Virginia; she was the daughter of Wahunsenacawh, the emperor.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

In turn, Nolan has sacrificed Odysseus himself to serve his own needs, scrapping the character’s prickly personality to Trojan-horse a message about how empires collapse.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

It offers not only a fresh portrait of India's most controversial Mughal ruler, but also a rare glimpse of how one of the world's great early-modern empires actually worked.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

A U.S. naval officer, historian, and military theorist, Mahan argued that control of the seas was the key to empires from Rome to Britain.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

Elsewhere in the world—in the U.S. and the empires of Britain, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands—slavery was still legal.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

Though no fan of the Inka, he conceded that “only a very small number of empires throughout the whole world have succeeded in achieving this feat.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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