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conquest

[kon-kwest, kong-] / ˈkɒn kwɛst, ˈkɒŋ- /




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But part of Hyundai’s planned conquest of the U.S. market is to move fast, product-wise, in order to stay fresher, longer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

After a history of aggressive expansion and conquest, this was a rare example of a territory joining the U.S. through its own free choice, rather than being pursued.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

The conquest took place around 300 years before the events of “Game of Thrones” and is detailed in George R.R.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

It tells the story of the Norman conquest of England and the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

A summary of the last 13,000 years of New World and western Eurasian history makes clear how Europe’s conquest of the Americas was merely the culmination of two long and mostly separate historical trajectories.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Mr. Diamond revisits the conquests of Genghis Khan, the leader of the Mongol empire from 1206 to 1227.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The Al-Bass site is centred on a necropolis that dates back three millennia to Tyre's time as a major Phoenician city and was still in use until the Arab conquests of the 7h Century.

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026

After 1909, Secretary of State Philander Knox, one of the founders of the United States Steel Corporation, pursued a program of "dollar diplomacy" that promoted American power through overseas investments rather than territorial conquests.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025

But though these art objects carry the weight of centuries of defeats and conquests, they can’t alone engender a cultural identity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024

Friederich was obliged finally to give up the siege, because he learned of the fall of Glatz, the critical point of his new conquests.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut


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