hegemony

Example Sentences

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Among the young, "hegemony" has slipped into everyday speech, shorthand for India's long shadow over Bangladesh.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 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

Cycles of great-power rivalry, where leading states grasped ineffectively for hegemony, shaped the emergence of both dynastic empires and modern nations while testing statesmen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 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

In the third century BC the era of Greek hegemony was over.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife