empire
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Since last year, when the RSF overran parts of Darfur and Kordofan, the militia has commandeered the gum trade, integrating it into its smuggling empire and further starving government coffers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
For a woman who Hollywood exiles into the Nevada desert, only for her to build an empire and return to Los Angeles to conquer the industry, besting cancer should be a cinch.
From Salon • May 29, 2026
Plus, why Phoenix’s empire of cubicle jobs is fading and how dads are scaling back at the office for kids and housework.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Fu lived in American communities but sought to use mind control and esoteric sciences to bring down the Western empire.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
If it had not been for the epidemic, the Spaniards would have faced a united empire.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing empire
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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Political Geography - Middle School
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