expansionism

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Many Mexicans tend to sympathize with Cuba because of historic concerns about U.S. expansionism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Later it became standard fare she studied in high school: the engineering feat connecting two oceans, a formative adventure in American expansionism, an early notch on Teddy Roosevelt’s belt.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2024

The US marked its diplomatic presence at the presidential country retreat by brokering a thaw in the relationship of the two pacific nations in the face of growing Chinese expansionism.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2023

Shinzo Abe was born in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 1954, to a family deeply involved in Japan’s postwar politics and carrying the burden of connections to the former imperial rule and its militaristic expansionism.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

But, as elsewhere throughout America, the progress is somewhat dwarfed by the population pressures and untrammeled expansionism planning must deal with.

From The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Dept. of the Interior.