imperially
Americanadverb
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Securing the dynasty’s rule required replacing local military leaders with imperially appointed mandarins, civilian government officials who could advise and, when necessary, restrain the generals on matters of foreign policy.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
It would also prove an enormously elusive style of thinking, making it difficult to distinguish between the banal and the brilliant, between the imperially helpful and the imperially devastating.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2018
They are also another excuse to revisit historic Britain at its most jolly decent and imperially mighty, which never hurts.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2017
What a year it’s been — Jay Leno involuntarily stepped down from “The Tonight Show” after 22 years and Stern just imperially stepped down from his NBA throne after 30 years .
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2014
Through a dozen of these evolutions she sat, and took all the homage imperially.
From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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