empire
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Beyond business you’ll think: Lincoln in the dirt-floor log cabin becomes president, Oprah Winfrey of rural Mississippi hardship invents a media empire.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
I’m looking into a freezer box at the fall of the Roman empire.
From Slate • May 8, 2026
As his television empire expanded, Turner made a failed bid to acquire CBS in the 1980s and then briefly acquired MGM/UA Entertainment Co. studios.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
Turner also saw professional wrestling as part of his sports portfolio, at one point trying to pit his World Championship Wrestling program against competitor Vince McMahon’s wrestling empire, then called the World Wrestling Federation.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
He was of such goodness that among the other laudable deeds attributed to him is this: in the fourteen years he ruled the empire, he never put anyone to death without a trial.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
Vocabulary lists containing empire
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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Political Geography - Middle School
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