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expansionism

[ik-span-shuh-niz-uhm] / ɪkˈspæn ʃəˌnɪz əm /
NOUN
growth
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In a joint statement with Spain's La Liga, Germany's Bundesliga, and Italy's Serie A, the English top flight says it is speaking out "because we understand how Fifa's relentless expansionism affects everyone".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

But the Qin’s imperial blueprint—uniform laws, consistent weights and measurements, a centralized bureaucracy, and early focus on expansionism to ward off “barbarians” in the north—provided the scaffolding for the Han’s greatness.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

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.


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