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hegemony
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  • Some of them, like "the second wave," I'd heard before even if I didn't know what they meant; others, like "the hegemonic masculinity," I couldn't get my tongue around let alone my mind.  (source)
  • His career extends from the industry's modest origins to its current hamburger hegemony.  (source)
  • He was speaking to Genet in Tigrinya, but I heard a few English words: "hegemony" and "proletariat."  (source)
    hegemony = the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over all others
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  • Lately we had hoped that Attolia would take Sounis and be content once he was no longer a threat to her throne, whereas Sounis's goal has been to expand his hegemony.  (source)
    hegemony = dominance
  • It's fine to work with these hegemonist Russians with the buggers out there, but after we win, I can't see leaving half the civilized world as virtual helots, can you, dear?  (source)
    hegemonist = attempting to assert dominance
  • The government portrayed itself as a bulwark against the return of alien, Tutsi hegemony, the ever-present threat, which events in Burundi made entirely plausible.  (source)
    hegemony = dominance
  • It is in the interest of the Hegemony that you accept.†  (source)
  • This thought accorded with the enthusiasm of the Liberals, especially the younger ones, who had succeeded in electing a president from their party after forty-five years of Conservative hegemony.†  (source)
  • They did not know if it was a war of ideology or economics or hegemony or spite.†  (source)
  • They are incapable either of self-rule or of accepting the hegemony of their superiors.†  (source)
  • Yet, indeed, even leaving aside these most powerful resemblances, which are very real and which find their origin in similar historical fountains (there should be added: an entrenched religious hegemony, authoritarian and puritanical in spirit), one discovers more superficial yet sparkling cultural correspondences: the passion for horseflesh and military titles, domination over women (along with a sulky-sly lechery), a tradition of storytelling, addiction to the blessings of firewater.†  (source)
  • This went on for years, right up to the war between the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance and the Chinese Hegemony.†  (source)
  • Northerners whose political power depended on maintaining the Federal hegemony over the former Confederate states resisted any effort to heal sectional strife.†  (source)
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