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empires

noun

plural of empire

as in conglomerates

a group of businesses or enterprises under one control the media mogul's empire consists of newspapers, TV stations, and cable companies

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Recent Examples of empires The territories at various times have been part of the Russian and Ottoman empires, medieval Kievan Rus’ and earlier civilizations. — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026 The Fantasy Bra Club is a who's-who of supermodels and, now, reality TV billionaires with makeup empires. — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2026 More kidslop — hyperstimulating shortform videos engineered to hook young brains and build the online empires of their creators — followed. — Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026 In the absence of other forces, empires seldom succumb to a challenger or to barbarians at the gates. — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026 Among the English-speaking settlers, the events at Lake George would be remembered as a massacre, and the Indigenous people whose home this was, whose conventions of war did not match those of the European empires, were called savages. — James Whorton Jr, Longreads, 13 Oct. 2026 This latest group of founders stands on the shoulders of giants from the noughties like Spotify, Klarna, and Skype, who themselves took inspiration from the postwar design empires of IKEA, H&M and Tetra Pak (modernizer of the milk carton). — Jan Larsson, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026 Istanbul, city of empires The city now known as Istanbul has been at the heart of empires, from the Roman to the Byzantine to the Ottoman, and their legacies can be found throughout the Turkish metropolis. — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026 Fictional princes fill pop culture, from heroic leaders in science fiction empires to charming ones in modern takes on classic fairy tales. — Sarah Scott, Parents, 17 Sep. 2026

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conglomerates

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In the late nineteenth century, two brothers, Gerard and Anton Philips, started an incandescent-bulb outfit that would eventually become one of the largest electronics conglomerates in the world.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
The merged media conglomerates will now operate under one entity as Skydance, and means that Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and HBO Max’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver are now run by the same corporation.

— Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2026

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