hegemony
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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
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
She said she had enjoyed some of the newer spaces even more because they were "creating new ways to experience nightlife" outside what she called "the hegemony of the big Berlin clubs".
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 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
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