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empire

[em-pahyuhr, om-peer] / ˈɛm paɪər, ɒmˈpɪər /


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The BuzzFeed purchase is the latest in a series of business moves Allen has made in recent years to build his entertainment empire.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

Plus, oil prices fall and Elon Musk’s empire struggles as investors await next week’s interest-rate decision.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

When Truelove arrived in Los Angeles in April 2023, he had dreams of building a website and maybe a social media empire.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

It is the sort of unorthodox deal that has helped the Trumps rapidly expand their business empire into new industries.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

And the one big thing he knew was that America’s future as a nation lay to the West, in its development over the next century of a continental empire.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

In turn, Nolan has sacrificed Odysseus himself to serve his own needs, scrapping the character’s prickly personality to Trojan-horse a message about how empires collapse.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

It offers not only a fresh portrait of India's most controversial Mughal ruler, but also a rare glimpse of how one of the world's great early-modern empires actually worked.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

Elsewhere in the world—in the U.S. and the empires of Britain, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands—slavery was still legal.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

The Adani Group is one of India's largest business empires, operating businesses ranging from ports and power plants to cement factories and media houses.

From Barron's May 18, 2026

This explanation was suggested by the undoubted fact that the earliest known empires and writing systems arose in the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys of the Fertile Crescent and in the Nile Valley of Egypt.

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




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