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1
controlling power or influence over others
- a start-up threatening the company's reign over the computer chip market
Synonyms for reign
- ascendance
- (also ascendence),
- ascendancy
- (also ascendency),
- dominance,
- domination,
- dominion,
- hegemony,
- imperium,
- predominance,
- predominancy,
- preeminence,
- sovereignty
- (also sovranty),
- supremacy
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2
the right or means to command or control others
- a democratic nation that is governed by the reign of law and not by the whim of its chief executive
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reign
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“Reign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reign. Accessed 26 Oct. 2021.
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