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imperial

[im-peer-ee-uhl] / ɪmˈpɪər i əl /
ADJECTIVE
regal
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Antonyms
STRONGEST


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Their second day of meetings was held at Zhongnanhai, an imperial garden and lake district that has served as the secretive seat of power for the Chinese Communist Party since the revolution of 1949.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

This sober reflection on imperial overreach had several U.S. productions in the era of the First and Second Gulf Wars.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

So his architects hired 500 workers to build a full-size replica of the nonexistent arch, out of canvas and painted wood, for the imperial wedding.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

For the British, it was the beginning of the end of their imperial domination of the Middle East.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Clementine Stark had a canopy bed moored like an imperial barge at one end of her sea-blue bedroom carpet.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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