expansionist
Americannoun
adjective
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The richest cache, in Kolkata's National Library, consists of 21 volumes devoted to the reign of Aurangzeb, who ruled the Mughal empire from 1658 to 1707 and was its last great expansionist emperor.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Yet this aggressively expansionist posture contradicts traditional Shiite Islamic thought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
She was referring to the 1846-48 Mexican-American War, now widely seen as a U.S. expansionist gambit in the era of Manifest Destiny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
It had long been fighting expansionist wars, extending the kingdom to include more and more of East Africa.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 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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