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empire

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


Example Sentences

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Now Ellison and his son, David, are trying to build a Hollywood media empire.

From Barron's

Yet, for all of her work building an empire, Paltrow still has the innate ability to disappear into a character.

From Salon

They both built real estate empires, handed them to their kids and relocated to South Florida.

From The Wall Street Journal

A proper Englishwoman whose husband, Arthur, served in Burma, she has been formidable all her life, with an unshakeable faith in God and the empire.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Conquering the North” is a sprawling book about wars, treaties, empires and ethnic conflict along China’s northern borderlands.

From The Wall Street Journal