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imperialist

NOUN
promoter of empire
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In Nuuk on Friday, after visiting with local leaders at a government office on the main boulevard of Greenland’s capital, Frederiksen embraced locals fearful of an imperialist United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026

History shows, if anything, that imperialist ventures in Latin America don’t always pay off.

From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026

Roosevelt made little secret of his own imperialist designs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

"The threat may not feel as urgent as a terrorist or an imperialist autocrat. But it is more fundamental. It is systemic, it's pervasive and accelerating towards us at pace," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2024

Vietnam War-era denunciations of the Pilgrims as imperialist or racist simply replicated the error in a new form.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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