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Iran agreed to reopen the vital thoroughfare during the two-week truce, but said it would maintain "dominion" over it.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

So it’s not just religion qua religion, or religion and law; it’s really bolted onto ideas of capitalism and the economy and dominion of the world.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026

And that dominion over the means of app distribution rankles other tech heavyweights who are trying to find ways to control their own destiny, including Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

It also showed that "there was no point in having a dominion status under the empire when the British cannot be expected to deal with their subjects fairly", adds Pushpa.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025

The Greeks returned the favor: over the roughly one thousand years of Greco-Roman dominion of Egypt, we have no evidence of any Egyptian word making its way into common Greek usage.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Slavery was widespread in ancient Rome and its dominions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Unlike other British dominions, including Canada and New Zealand, Australia never forged a treaty with its original inhabitants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

Australia has no treaty with its Indigenous people, and has done little in comparison to other British dominions like Canada, New Zealand and the United States to include and uplift its First Nations people.

From Reuters ● Jun. 23, 2023

The large empires fighting in the conflict brought troops from their colonies and dominions to fight.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

All states and all dominions that have had and continue to have power over men have been, and still are, either republics or principalities.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli