How to Use hegemon in a Sentence

hegemon

noun
  • Tech sector is what made the US the hegemon, but that may change.
    — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Nations are supposed to make a choice in favor of this or that hegemon, this or that bloc.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The hegemon exhibits power by rising above such tawdry tricks.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 24 June 2019
  • Iran wants to be the regional hegemon and have all of the countries of the region bend to its wishes.
    — Kenneth M. Pollack, National Review, 9 Oct. 2017
  • America was born as a maritime nation and grew to become a hegemon.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 7 Apr. 2025
  • That is not to say the United States is the perfect global hegemon.
    — Aron Ravin, National Review, 16 June 2021
  • For the first time in centuries, Europe lacks a potential hegemon.
    — Justin Logan, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2024
  • And thus the decline of a hegemon can often lead to instability.
    — Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 30 May 2025
  • Since then, the country has begun to behave less like a liberal hegemon and more like a classic petrostate.
    — Michael L. Ross, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2025
  • Quantum computing, we’re told, will be the next big techno-shock, and the country that gets the lead on it will become the world-hegemon.
    — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The United States is no longer the unchallenged global hegemon.
    — John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
  • As a result, existing hegemons often take steps to confront or otherwise prevent the rise of new peers.
    — Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2024
  • But in 2005 this backwater bank incurred the wrath and might of the world’s financial hegemon.
    — The Economist, 19 May 2018
  • The world, after trying in vain to placate its predatory hegemon, now seems to have started the hard work of rebalancing.
    — Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2026
  • If one man can block the industrial development of what is, for now, the world’s hegemon, then its hegemony must be very frail indeed.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022
  • Ever since, statesmen and scholars have grappled with the problem of how to deal with the reluctant hegemon at the heart of Europe.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Today, the only vital region with a potential rival hegemon is Asia.
    — Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • But as the hegemon’s dominance begins to fade, so, too, does this natural harmony of interests.
    — Andrew Byers, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2024
  • When infused with the power of a rising hegemon, those men were capable of actions that expanded their empire’s ambit.
    — Alfred McCoy, Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
  • In spite of the series’s bleak themes, Lucas succeeds in engendering a new hope, a vision of the future in which the hegemon is deposed.
    — Ruby Thélot, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
  • In practice, pursuing this goal has meant preventing the emergence of a European hegemon.
    — Justin Logan, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Britain, the hegemon of the day, had a uniquely powerful capacity to turn the propagation of shock to its advantage.
    — Nicholas A. Lambert, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The rise of new technology and a retreating hegemon are a combustible combination.
    — Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • These are not the actions of a responsible superpower, but rather the impulsive demands of a declining hegemon that has lost its way.
    — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Over the past three decades, in his view, America has become a hostage, rather than a hegemon, of the liberal international order.
    — Ivan Krastev, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Waging economic warfare in a serious and sustained way requires some wealthy nation (the ruling hegemon) to serve, in effect, as a lender of last resort.
    — Nicholas A. Lambert, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Around the same time Nestlé was boasting about its world-beating Nescafé, another product was vying to become a global caffeine hegemon.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Perhaps in a decade or two historians will look back and point to this policy or that event as the turning-point in China’s emergence as a financial hegemon.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • As Hans Kundnani put it, as a hegemon, the United States set the norms of the international order.
    — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 5 Jan. 2017
  • The alternative is going toe-to-toe, alone, against the global hegemon and its intransigent President.
    — David Moscrop, Time, 8 May 2025

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