as in domination
the act or process of bringing someone or something under one's control
the conquest of much of North and South America by the Spanish during the 16th century
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Recent Examples of conquest
Iranians are also religious and ethnic minorities in the wider world, and that has bred existential fears of foreign conquest.
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Robin Wright, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Its military doctrine is not built for conquest but for resistance.
—Narges Bajoghli, Time, 19 June 2025
The sight of 150,000-plus allied troops, hundreds of combat aircraft and dozens of warships helped keep Moscow from getting any ideas about further conquests in Central and Western Europe.
—James Stavridis, Twin Cities, 24 May 2025
His parents, Polish immigrants who fled German conquest and discrimination, took Indian land—and felt shame over doing so, having been uprooted themselves.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025
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Robin Wright, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Its military doctrine is not built for conquest but for resistance.
—Narges Bajoghli, Time, 19 June 2025
The sight of 150,000-plus allied troops, hundreds of combat aircraft and dozens of warships helped keep Moscow from getting any ideas about further conquests in Central and Western Europe.
—James Stavridis, Twin Cities, 24 May 2025
His parents, Polish immigrants who fled German conquest and discrimination, took Indian land—and felt shame over doing so, having been uprooted themselves.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conquest
domination
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Evangelical politics rest on the same punitive, exclusionary foundation—a politics of division and domination, fixated on the end of the world rather than the flourishing of the Earth.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
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Which athletes And Nations Will Be The Biggest Draws Of The 2025 World Aquatics Championships? Diving China is predicted to maintain its long domination in diving at Singapore.—
Paras J. Haji,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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“Conquest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conquest. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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