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The other reason to contemplate a cat’s consciousness is that we might learn something about those other creatures over which we now hold dominion — robots.

From New York Times Aug. 27, 2021

I’ll take down Clarissa AND Eddie AND hold dominion over all of this school.

From New York Times Apr. 21, 2016

Today, in the once-derelict Northern Quarter, record stores, live venues and sonic-minded galleries and pubs hold dominion.

From New York Times Apr. 29, 2011

Winston Churchill was a young army officer when Rudyard Kipling was writing about the Lord God of Hosts "beneath whose awful hand we hold dominion over palm and pine."

From Time Magazine Archive

Spain," observes he, "seemed destined by her position to hold dominion over the world, and this in fact she once possessed.

From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh




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