hegemony
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While Prague had always been home to German-speakers, the language acquired a near-total linguistic hegemony over the city’s well-heeled elites, despite Prague’s Czech-speaking hinterland.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
The hegemony of claw machines has also gone hand in hand with a gradual transformation of urban hangouts.
From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025
For 40 years the Old Firm hegemony has held.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025
Butchart opines that the rest of the world is – explicitly or implicitly – opposed to unchallenged U.S. financial hegemony.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 16, 2025
The first period of hegemony was that of Chavin, which from about 700 b.c. to the dawn of the Christian era controlled the central coast of Peru and the adjacent mountains.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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