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Recent Examples of conquest Iranians are also religious and ethnic minorities in the wider world, and that has bred existential fears of foreign conquest. Robin Wright, New Yorker, 23 June 2025 Its military doctrine is not built for conquest but for resistance. Narges Bajoghli, Time, 19 June 2025 The sight of 150,000-plus allied troops, hundreds of combat aircraft and dozens of warships helped keep Moscow from getting any ideas about further conquests in Central and Western Europe. James Stavridis, Twin Cities, 24 May 2025 His parents, Polish immigrants who fled German conquest and discrimination, took Indian land—and felt shame over doing so, having been uprooted themselves. Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for conquest
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domination
Noun
  • Hockey’s loss became golf’s gain, and Gilmore’s domination on the championship tour gave the PGA a shot of pure rock & roll energy right up its tight, white ass.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2025
  • It was held together not by the domination of a single group, but rather by its asymmetries.
    Aatish Taseer, Time, 15 July 2025

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“Conquest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conquest. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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