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empire

noun as in place ruled by sovereign; rule

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Walt Disney Co. likes to resurrect a famous Walt Disney quote saying that the empire was “started by a mouse.”

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In the mostly peaceful decades that followed, Athens became a wealthy empire.

In the U.S., away from the media empire that “31 Minutos” has built in Latin America, he works as a screenwriter.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, has called for aggressive action, including a possible breakup of UnitedHealth’s empire.

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The work came from the estate of cosmetics executive Leonard Lauder, elder scion of Estée Lauder and chairman emeritus of her beauty empire who died in June.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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