expansionist
Americannoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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“Manifest Destiny gets coined as a term, and you had this nationalist, expansionist mindset.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026
Washington turned out to be the ideal radical expansionist to follow in Boulez’s footsteps for the new LACMA, with a resplendent enlargement of his 2018 half-hour EP, “Harmony of Difference.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025
They might look to King Charles as their head of state, and head of the Commonwealth too, to strongly speak up for them and to rebuff such expansionist claims from the US president.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2025
He explicitly cited “manifest destiny” in describing his expansionist ambitions for taking control of the Panama Canal and colonizing Mars.
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2025
The Olmec, he thought, were the Romans of Mesoamerica, a magisterial society that “established the pattern which, through the centuries, was to be followed by other expansionist Mesoamerican cultures.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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