conquest
Example Sentences
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It was a fever dream of geopolitical conquest.
From Salon
Her Hellenic identity is unsurprising, as there was an influx of Greeks after Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt in 332 B.C.
Alexander Gabuev, the director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin who played Putin in the exercise, pointed out that the smokescreen of “humanitarian” intervention was crucial to enable Russian conquest.
He breathed out, a great Ha! of conquest, and with that Ha! the wind grew, and with it the gray mist.
From Literature
At the time, Americans mainly cheered that conquest, with the notable exception of a newly elected congressman, Abraham Lincoln.
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