empire
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The franchise is the crown jewel of producer Dick Wolf’s empire, with the mothership series kicking off a milestone season Thursday on NBC.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
World War I brought an end to the empire.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Evergrande became known as the world's most indebted property developer after much of its empire was built on $300bn of borrowed money.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
Though it is a matter of some debate exactly how equitable the league was even in its earliest days, by the middle of the century it had, as Mr. Stuttard writes, “mutated” into an empire.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Alexander’s empire had collapsed into bickering states, and a new power was flexing its muscles in the West: Rome.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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