How to Use hegemon in a Sentence

hegemon

noun

• Tech sector is what made the US the hegemon, but that may change.
  — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
• That is not to say the United States is the perfect global hegemon.
  — Aron Ravin, National Review, 16 June 2021
• Iran wants to be the regional hegemon and have all of the countries of the region bend to its wishes.
  — Kenneth M. Pollack, National Review, 9 Oct. 2017
• But in 2005 this backwater bank incurred the wrath and might of the world’s financial hegemon.
  — The Economist, 19 May 2018
• Quantum computing, we’re told, will be the next big techno-shock, and the country that gets the lead on it will become the world-hegemon.
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
• The hegemon exhibits power by rising above such tawdry tricks.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 24 June 2019
• As Hans Kundnani put it, as a hegemon, the United States set the norms of the international order.
  — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 5 Jan. 2017
• Ever since, statesmen and scholars have grappled with the problem of how to deal with the reluctant hegemon at the heart of Europe.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2020
• But if there is to be any hope of preventing Iran from becoming a regional hegemon, Trump will have to roll back the nuclear deal.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 15 Sep. 2017
• Following his death, Mr. McFall will not have a successor as hegemon of fiction; his duties, like most others at the Strand, will be shared.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• If one man can block the industrial development of what is, for now, the world’s hegemon, then its hegemony must be very frail indeed.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022
• Britain, the hegemon of the day, had a uniquely powerful capacity to turn the propagation of shock to its advantage.
  — Nicholas A. Lambert, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• Around the same time Nestlé was boasting about its world-beating Nescafé, another product was vying to become a global caffeine hegemon.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2022
• Perhaps in a decade or two historians will look back and point to this policy or that event as the turning-point in China’s emergence as a financial hegemon.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• At the time, Thebes was one of the major players in mainland Greece and the hegemon of all Greece, from Macedonia southward, calling the shots thanks to its remarkable military distinction.
  — Paul Cartledge, WSJ, 25 July 2021
• There have been clear signs over the past two decades, however, that Americans are tiring of taking on this role, while much of the world, equally, is cooling on the US as its hegemon, and is eager to step into its shoes.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 1 Nov. 2020
• Instead of being investigated for a litany of abuses, Raisi is taking over the highest elected office in a country that is now the hegemon in the Middle East.
  — Robin Wrigh, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
• Not only does the winner automatically become the official hegemon of the Middle East, but the loser has to throw a wicked dope party for the winner.
  — Alex Siquig, GQ, 12 Dec. 2017
• That final was seen as conclusive proof that the club could now see itself as a legitimate European power and the equal of its nemesis and hegemon, Real Madrid.
  — New York Times, 28 May 2021
• Waging economic warfare in a serious and sustained way requires some wealthy nation (the ruling hegemon) to serve, in effect, as a lender of last resort.
  — Nicholas A. Lambert, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• Foreign experts are noticing that Chinese elites are increasingly willing to talk about how the West is finished and how China is the benevolent hegemon of the future.
  — Margaret MacMillan, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
• States whose interests clash with the United States may now have opportunities to win gains while the United States, the global hegemon, is distracted with its internal crises.
  — Henry Farrell, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
• The rise of new technology and a retreating hegemon are a combustible combination.
  — Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
• Being a global tech hegemon has been lucrative for America.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• The simplistic framing is wrong to cast the U.S. as a declining hegemon increasingly fearful of an inevitably rising China.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 10 May 2021
• Pliant European states have had to bolster their own commitment to religious liberty so as to remain in good standing with the global hegemon.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 20 Mar. 2021
• That’s a reflection of growing concerns over Chinese President Xi Jinping as the driving force of a dangerous, emerging hegemon.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2020
• As time passed, smaller countries didn’t want to go up against the regional hegemon and American companies had become too globalized to care, so China was never held to account.
  — Lydia Depillis, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2020
• His basic belief is that the United States is a rogue hegemon that unfairly has too much international power and influence.
  — Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• Nonetheless, governments around the world no longer see the United States as a lone hegemon and are recalibrating accordingly.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2023

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024