hegemony

Example Sentences

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It’s a potent reminder of Western European hegemony.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 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

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

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

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