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Recent Examples of imperium Even the Commonwealth—long a convenient way to sustain a more symbolic form of cultural imperium—has lost much of its meaning. Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 21 Feb. 2023 Playing that particular Neil Young tune to represent the American imperium was an insidious selection. Armond White, National Review, 17 May 2024 Poland, through a protest movement, led the liberation of Europe from the Soviet imperium, culminating with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Roger Cohen, New York Times, 5 May 2024 But Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s extraordinary new demands and threats, following his military buildup on the borders of Ukraine, has brought NATO back to basics — containing Russian power and imperium. New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022 But unlike the familiar realm of the Caesars, this imperium doesn’t govern only humans: Talking beasts also live as citizens in the empire. Liz Braswell, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023 Many people in what was formerly East Germany, part of the Soviet imperium until shortly before German unification in 1990, look favorably on Moscow. Roger Cohen, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023 And his greatest success, the reform of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, turned out to be his greatest failure, when reform led to peaceful revolutions across the Soviet imperium. Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2022 Firstly, the struggle of Czech writers (within a German-speaking imperium) to transform their little vernacular into a language of literary distinction. Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imperium
Noun
  • The dominion is a point of pride for those forced to leave so much of themselves behind.
    Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 1 July 2024
  • Glimpses of past traumas and ongoing tribulations are thrown into balance the full breadth of a character striving to solidify her dominion.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The craving for power and domination dwarfs all other hormonal gratifications.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The case has become emblematic of rape culture and male domination the world over.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Their ability to adapt led the dinosaurs to outcompete non-dinosaurian land vertebrates, so that by the end of the Triassic the dominance of dinosaurs was complete.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Those second-half runs were a trademark over the last two years of dominance.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Washington and Beijing have clashed over trade, human rights and the sovereignty of Taiwan and the South China Sea, sparking fears of open war between the superpowers.
    Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
  • But in a way, President Assad has forfeited Syrian sovereignty in order to survive.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In the 1990s, The Monday Night War was a pivotal turning point and involved two rival wrestling promotions engaged in a ruthless cable television ratings battle for supremacy.
    Mark LaSota, Ph.D., Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Put together, this allowed the researchers to reconstruct the interactions between ecosystems—essentially a food web—at the time the dinosaurs began rising to supremacy.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024

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“Imperium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imperium. Accessed 10 Dec. 2024.

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