sphere of influence
noun phrase
: a territorial area within which the political influence or the interests of one nation are held to be more or less paramount
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These spheres of influence blur the already thin line between belonging and feeling community with an artist— and entitlement and the feeling that the artist works for us.
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Taylor Crumpton, TIME, 13 Sep. 2024
America is now facing turmoil common in the classical world: an assassination attempt, the use of legal assaults to delegitimize or even remove political opponents, the overthrow of a sitting leader by his own supporters, wars raging or threatened at nearly every edge of our sphere of influence.
—Jeremy Wayne Tate, National Review, 1 Sep. 2024
Chinese officials have long signaled their interest in deploying a satellite network, or maybe several, to beam broadband Internet signals across China and other nations within its sphere of influence.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2024
After expanding their sphere of influence to Lake Maggiore in the 13th century, the powerful family had this castle built by extending an existing fortress whose origins traced back to 998.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2024
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Taylor Crumpton, TIME, 13 Sep. 2024
America is now facing turmoil common in the classical world: an assassination attempt, the use of legal assaults to delegitimize or even remove political opponents, the overthrow of a sitting leader by his own supporters, wars raging or threatened at nearly every edge of our sphere of influence.
—Jeremy Wayne Tate, National Review, 1 Sep. 2024
Chinese officials have long signaled their interest in deploying a satellite network, or maybe several, to beam broadband Internet signals across China and other nations within its sphere of influence.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2024
After expanding their sphere of influence to Lake Maggiore in the 13th century, the powerful family had this castle built by extending an existing fortress whose origins traced back to 998.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2024
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