How to Use hegemony in a Sentence

hegemony

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  • They discussed the national government's hegemony over their tribal community.
  • European intellectuals have long debated the consequences of the hegemony of American popular culture around the world.
  • Pursuing resilience and deterrence, not primacy or hegemony, would set them on a more stable course.
    — Jessica Chen Weiss, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Critics see the reforms as part of a strategy to solidify the hegemony of the Morena party, which was founded by López Obrador.
    — Eduardo García, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Both the anthem and the flag are symbols of white hegemony.
    — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 25 Sep. 2017
  • All around the world, a backlash is brewing against the hegemony of the US dollar.
    — Michelle Jamrisko, Fortune, 2 June 2023
  • There are some reasons to be bullish about the chances of mainstream big-pants hegemony.
    — Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • In the end, breaking Juve’s nine-year hegemony on the Italian game came at a heavy price for Inter.
    — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • In other words, Beijing is neither on the cusp of peaking nor on a road to hegemony.
    — Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • That was perhaps the last time a President would be so blithe about U.S. hegemony.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2020
  • And so no matter how bad the United States has looked over the past few years, the prospect of Chinese hegemony looks far worse to most people around the world.
    — CBS News, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Sierra Leone, where the hegemony of bondo is still entrenched, has nothing of the sort.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • Even worse are the practices of hegemony and bullying, which run counter to the tide of history.
    — Jamey Keaten, ajc, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Fear of Iranian hegemony in the Middle East is a major cause of this trend.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The first blow to the hegemony of Galen came from Vesalius, a Flemish physician of vast energy.
    — John J. Ross, WSJ, 24 July 2022
  • The Whites and Zuerlein hope to restore its former glory and break the hegemony of the Gadbois coaches.
    — Joyce Rubin, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The rise of Xi followed the decline of American hegemony.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • In so doing, India would widen its sense of its own backyard and check the Chinese quest for hegemony.
    — Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2024
  • Then, of course, there was the appearance in 1979 of freshman House member Newt Gingrich, who thought the time was ripe for a full frontal assault on the hegemony of the Democrats.
    — David Holahan, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Beijing has long hoped that the Chinese yuan could threaten the dollar hegemony.
    — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Acts of hegemony and bullying are causing colossal harm to the world.
    — Edith M. Lederer, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Regardless of the source, the attacks have taken a page out of Iran’s own playbook to thwart Tehran’s bid for Middle East hegemony.
    — Rebeccah Heinrichs, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The Epic development is a blow to Apple’s hegemony in iOS apps.
    — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2024
  • There have been acts amassing millions of streams who were willing to ignore reggaeton’s hegemony for the space of a song or two.
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2021
  • The prospect of Iranian hegemony is raising alarm across the region (see Briefing).
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • To a certain extent, demography dictates the hegemony of the old in Japan.
    — New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Now Iran is setting up military bases to cement its dream of a land bridge to Lebanon as a path to regional hegemony.
    — Daniel Schwammenthal, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
  • These conferences are doing this to stop the SEC's march toward hegemony.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Russia lacks the hard and soft power to extend its hegemony much beyond the post-Soviet space.
    — Peter Savodnik, The Hive, 2 Feb. 2017
  • For Carlson, the vaccine is a potent metaphor for the creeping hegemony of Democratic elites.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2021

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