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
Tamale, an important trading hub in northern Ghana, is known for its fugu clothing, a type of smock with roots in the Malian and Songhai empires.
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Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
The robber barons and telecom wildcatters borrowed to build their empires, and dragged their financiers down with them when the music stopped.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2025
All empires are transitory, right?
—Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile right wing content creators are building massive media empires weaponizing pop culture news for political purposes with little to no scrutiny.
—Taylor Lorenz, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2025
One of the earliest mentions of Sogdiana is in the fifth century BCE, when the land was a territory of one of the world’s first empires—the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
—Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2025
The zeitgeist of the late 19th century, however, was rife with such projects—national movements seeking to carve sovereign spaces out of the old empires.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
Avocado, cassava, sweet potatoes, and maize traveled between islands long before Europeans divided the waters into empires.
—Israel Melendez Ayala, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
One builds empires, the other leads to burnout.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
The robber barons and telecom wildcatters borrowed to build their empires, and dragged their financiers down with them when the music stopped.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 23 Sep. 2025
All empires are transitory, right?
—Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile right wing content creators are building massive media empires weaponizing pop culture news for political purposes with little to no scrutiny.
—Taylor Lorenz, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2025
One of the earliest mentions of Sogdiana is in the fifth century BCE, when the land was a territory of one of the world’s first empires—the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
—Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2025
The zeitgeist of the late 19th century, however, was rife with such projects—national movements seeking to carve sovereign spaces out of the old empires.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
Avocado, cassava, sweet potatoes, and maize traveled between islands long before Europeans divided the waters into empires.
—Israel Melendez Ayala, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
One builds empires, the other leads to burnout.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for empires
conglomerates
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Since the nineties, it had been assumed that the web would democratize society, empowering bloggers to compete with media conglomerates, and small manufacturers to bypass big retailers.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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In the last couple of years, Indian firms, including some of the country’s largest conglomerates, have been calling for these restrictions to be eased.—
TANVI MADAN,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Empires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empires. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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