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dominion

[duh-min-yuhn] / dəˈmɪn jən /


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Anthropic and OpenAI will join SpaceX at the US mega-corp top table – exerting hitherto unseen power and influence across the globe and unprecedented dominion over its citizens if its champions are to be believed.

From BBC Jun. 8, 2026

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

The change was a dramatic departure from the archetype of the all-powerful football coach, whose dominion extended from the playbook to high-school recruiting.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 2025

The Coach of the Old Dominion Kiwanis has come to this hospital, to this strange outfield, to this old dominion of cancer, to this old dominion of death, coaching in the ward of the doomed.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Slavery was widespread in ancient Rome and its dominions.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Prince Baltasar Carlos, Philip’s only son and likely heir to all the king’s dominions, had died at 16, apparently a smallpox victim.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2024

And grant that the nations may keep faith with him, and that his counsellors in all his dominions may have peace and love charity.

From BBC Jul. 4, 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

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




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