as in conglomerates
a group of businesses or enterprises under one control
the media mogul's empire consists of newspapers, TV stations, and cable companies
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Recent Examples of empires
The city has been under many empires over history.
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Dan Mangan,emma Graham,hugh Leask,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 3 June 2026
Billionaire hospitality mogul Tilman Fertitta is acquiring Caesars Entertainment for almost $6 billion, a merger that would create one of the largest gaming empires.
—Jessica Hill, Fortune, 29 May 2026
Donald Newhouse, the billionaire newspaper publisher who helped oversee one of America’s most powerful media empires and whose family name remains synonymous with Condé Nast, has died at 96.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 27 May 2026
There was a global economic crisis, stagflation and many countries that had emerged from broken European empires were demanding a fairer political economy.
—Aisha Nyandoro, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
Titans fall and new empires rise.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 23 May 2026
In MobLand, two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 22 May 2026
Brother Lawrence Washington’s military service doubtless turned George’s British empires eyes in that direction, yet the temporary nature of Lawrence’s service gave George little more than a taste of what a life at arms entailed.
—Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
And Roosevelt explained in his summer radio addresses of 1941 that if the Germans win the war, the United States becomes an island within the world, with hostile empires dominating most of the world’s landmass.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
Dan Mangan,emma Graham,hugh Leask,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 3 June 2026
Billionaire hospitality mogul Tilman Fertitta is acquiring Caesars Entertainment for almost $6 billion, a merger that would create one of the largest gaming empires.
—Jessica Hill, Fortune, 29 May 2026
Donald Newhouse, the billionaire newspaper publisher who helped oversee one of America’s most powerful media empires and whose family name remains synonymous with Condé Nast, has died at 96.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 27 May 2026
There was a global economic crisis, stagflation and many countries that had emerged from broken European empires were demanding a fairer political economy.
—Aisha Nyandoro, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
Titans fall and new empires rise.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 23 May 2026
In MobLand, two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 22 May 2026
Brother Lawrence Washington’s military service doubtless turned George’s British empires eyes in that direction, yet the temporary nature of Lawrence’s service gave George little more than a taste of what a life at arms entailed.
—Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
And Roosevelt explained in his summer radio addresses of 1941 that if the Germans win the war, the United States becomes an island within the world, with hostile empires dominating most of the world’s landmass.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for empires
conglomerates
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Other huge fashion conglomerates like LVMH and Kering have grown in such a way that sometimes the individual brands lose their distinctiveness.—
Dave Schilling
Contributing
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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In fact, the economies of scale created by a tie-up would allow the new company to take the necessary risks to remain competitive against the multinational technology conglomerates that currently dominate streaming, thereby preventing even further market concentration in media production.—
Alexander Ciccone,
Oc Register,
8 June 2026
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“Empires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empires. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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