How to Use hegemony in a Sentence

hegemony

noun
  • 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.
  • There are some reasons to be bullish about the chances of mainstream big-pants hegemony.
    — Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Thank goodness there's a brave woman willing to fly in the face of this hegemony.
    — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • That’s what happens when the hegemon cedes hegemony.
    — Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
  • Folks in power, folks that play to hegemony, rarely have that kind of consciousness.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The next few years will determine if its hegemony fades or flourishes anew.
    — Andrew A. Michta, National Review, 17 Jan. 2021
  • Acts of hegemony and bullying are causing colossal harm to the world.
    — Edith M. Lederer, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2023
  • There’s precedent for this kind of genetic hegemony beyond the cane toad.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
  • In other words, Beijing is neither on the cusp of peaking nor on a road to hegemony.
    — Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Even worse are the practices of hegemony and bullying, which run counter to the tide of history.
    — Jamey Keaten, ajc, 17 Jan. 2022
  • All around the world, a backlash is brewing against the hegemony of the US dollar.
    — Michelle Jamrisko, Fortune, 2 June 2023
  • Sierra Leone, where the hegemony of bondo is still entrenched, has nothing of the sort.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2022
  • Beijing has long hoped that the Chinese yuan could threaten the dollar hegemony.
    — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Now that the hyperlocal hegemony of New Nordic is fading, what's next?
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The aim of the doctrine is to maintain American hegemony.
    — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 25 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Russia lacks the hard and soft power to extend its hegemony much beyond the post-Soviet space.
    — Peter Savodnik, The Hive, 2 Feb. 2017
  • Fear of Iranian hegemony in the Middle East is a major cause of this trend.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • The prospect of Iranian hegemony is raising alarm across the region (see Briefing).
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • These conferences are doing this to stop the SEC's march toward hegemony.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Aug. 2021
  • By the looks of it, news of rock music’s slow and painful death under ever-widening pop hegemony is greatly exaggerated.
    — Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • China does not seek to replicate traditional models of hegemony.
    — Yu Jie, Time, 13 May 2026
  • The first blow to the hegemony of Galen came from Vesalius, a Flemish physician of vast energy.
    — John J. Ross, WSJ, 24 July 2022
  • This season, however, is likely to bring an end to world football’s longest domestic hegemony.
    — Colin Millar, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • 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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