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empire

noun as in place ruled by sovereign; rule

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The New York Post, part of Rupert Murdoch’s empire, promised that Mamdani would make the city a “living nightmare” in an unsigned editorial.

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But Comstock has so far been the most aggressive in cobbling together its empire.

Hamlet’s friend Marcellus famously warned him that there was “something rotten in the state of Denmark” before his empire collapsed around him.

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The controversy gained traction because of Smith’s record of championing the marginalized, citing theorists like Frantz Fanon while targeting empires and the omnipresent patriarchy.

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Mr. Xi is no Mikhail Gorbachev negotiating his empire’s collapse.

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