dominion

Example Sentences

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The way Pope Leo saw it, powers were seeking to impose dominion through arms and undermining the taboo since World War II on changing borders by force.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

The Commodity Exchange Act grants regulatory dominion over event contracts sold on prediction markets to the U.S.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

Who knows whether we’re at the head or tail of the Anthropocene, but the movie seems weary of our dominion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025

When Britain’s global turn came in the nineteenth century, its naval dominion over the world’s oceans was softened by an enticing cultural ethos of commerce, language, literature, and even sports.

From Salon • May 28, 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