empire
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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
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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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