imperialist

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's • Jan. 18, 2026

“It became the popular trope that somehow this was a solely American game that, almost in a culturally imperialist way, was imposed on Canadians,” said Bill Humber, perhaps Canada’s most renowned baseball historian.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 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

However, the author doesn’t let her story become a historical sketch; she’s engaged in deconstructing imperialist concerns and showing how they affected and often crushed those not in power.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 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