empire
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In 1833, the U.K. agreed to spend 40% of the government’s annual budget to buy the freedom of slaves across its empire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Unable to save his wife, and grievously injured from a battle with his former mentor, he became a running dog of a fascist empire that aimed to rule the entire galaxy.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
Commissioner Rob Manfred said the league is keeping an eye on developments surrounding Walter’s insurance empire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Dangote, whose business empire spans Africa, had initially planned to raise $1.6 billion to help turn his flagship mega-oil refinery into the world's largest from the initial public offering, which closes on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
Along the spine of the Andes the empire set up a string of a dozen administrative centers that were like smaller versions of the capital.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Both were powerful leaders, in office for 16 and 14 years, who had taken over state institutions and established business empires overlapping the two countries.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Elon Musk has spent years building Tesla and SpaceX into a pair of trillion-dollar technology empires.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The old empires didn’t help themselves by responding brutally to the independence movements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Lebanon is brimming with archaeological finds showcasing its rich history over thousands of years, from the Phoenician, Persian, Roman and Byzantine periods, the Crusades, and Arab and Islamic sultanates and empires.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
They taught me the tongues of the Greeks and the Romans and opened for me the colonnaded vistas of those long-forgotten empires, in this, the dawning of a new empire.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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