manifest destiny
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Tucked into his speech was a mention of the 19th Century doctrine of "manifest destiny" – the idea that the US was divinely ordained to expand its territory across the continent, spreading American ideals.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
George Washington, though omitted from this equation, had always been present in Borglum’s vision of a sculpture that would represent the manifest destiny that had shaped the United States.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2025
Our former faith in manifest destiny always included another possibility; let’s call it manifest doom.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025
“As I’ve said in the past, it’s, I feel, our manifest destiny to continue to grow and not just grow in the United States but grow outside the United States as well.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2022
But because ambition succeeds best when disguised by virtue, he wanted to furnish the Alliance with an animating ideology—a manifest destiny, as it were, or mission civilisatrice.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
