conquered

Example Sentences

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"Iran doesn't have an independence day because they have not been conquered since the days of Alexander the Great."

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

It has conquered Silicon Valley, jolted Wall Street and even managed to scramble Anthropic’s fiercest rival.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

The German ultranationalists who conquered Prague in 1939 took an even more extreme view.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

"She came, she saw, she conquered," remembers Tony Blair.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

Everybody resents this inconvenience, and everyone becomes the ruler’s enemy; and these are enemies that can be harmful, since, although conquered, they remain in their own homes.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli