empires
- plural of empire.
Example Sentences
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A U.S. naval officer, historian, and military theorist, Mahan argued that control of the seas was the key to empires from Rome to Britain.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
It is with such acts of carelessness that leaders lose their credibility and empires lose their power.
From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026
Elsewhere in the world—in the U.S. and the empires of Britain, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands—slavery was still legal.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Lineker and Neville are now two of the biggest players in a rapidly changing media industry, each with their own digital empires, via their Goalhanger and Overlap platforms respectively.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
Those cases, initially so puzzling to us moderns accustomed to viewing writing as indispensable to a complex society, included one of the world’s largest empires as of A.D.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
