as in conglomerate
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 empire
The issue wasn’t with FC Nordsjælland, which is also part of the Right to Dream empire and has sent several other players to SDFC.
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
His new Goods and Services Tax replaced a byzantine tax code that included oddities like the octroi, a city toll on goods originating in the Roman empire.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 18 July 2025
The city’s big boom started after a guy named Walt Disney decided Orlando was the perfect place to build his East Coast empire and started covertly scooping up land.
—Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2025
And the same old rules that built its empire are the ones still starving songwriters.
—Jeff Rabhan, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2025
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
His new Goods and Services Tax replaced a byzantine tax code that included oddities like the octroi, a city toll on goods originating in the Roman empire.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 18 July 2025
The city’s big boom started after a guy named Walt Disney decided Orlando was the perfect place to build his East Coast empire and started covertly scooping up land.
—Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2025
And the same old rules that built its empire are the ones still starving songwriters.
—Jeff Rabhan, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for empire
conglomerate
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While both are fair subjects for criticism, Howze misses an opportunity for sharper, more specific satire by flattening the outsiders into a conglomerate threat.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
24 July 2025
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This is a company that plays the long game, something made easier by its ownership structure: L’Oréal is still majority owned by the founder’s family, the Bettencourt Meyers, and by Swiss conglomerate Nestlé, which bought a stake in 1974.—
Adam Gale,
Fortune,
24 July 2025
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“Empire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empire. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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