hegemony

Example Sentences

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While Prague had always been home to German-speakers, the language acquired a near-total linguistic hegemony over the city’s well-heeled elites, despite Prague’s Czech-speaking hinterland.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

For 40 years the Old Firm hegemony has held.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025

She said she had enjoyed some of the newer spaces even more because they were "creating new ways to experience nightlife" outside what she called "the hegemony of the big Berlin clubs".

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

Butchart opines that the rest of the world is – explicitly or implicitly – opposed to unchallenged U.S. financial hegemony.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 16, 2025

This hegemony looked likely to continue indefinitely But even without the catastrophe of two world wars, the Austro- German dynasty was coming to an end.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall