empire
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"That is the biggest deterrent of all for a man who has constantly resisted efforts to to look inside his empire and financial circumstances," said Paulson.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
The Roman Republic made much of austerity and rectitude; the empire it gave birth to could claim neither.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The fintech conglomerate Ant Group built an empire in the gaps between payments, banking and platform regulation before regulators halted its $37 billion IPO in 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Away from her Academy, Dimoldenberg is hugely busy building her media empire.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Meanwhile the much stronger and more centralized Zapotec empire collapsed completely in about 800 a.d.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Like fellow Nvidia supplier Foxconn, Wistron is one of the Taiwanese electronics firms that built their empires manufacturing consumer gear for tech giants like Apple, but are now pivoting toward AI hardware.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
And the power of empires, which depend on free trade, is threatened.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
“You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time.”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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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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