Synonyms for hegemony
hɪˈdʒɛm ə ni, ˈhɛdʒ əˌmoʊ nihege·mo·ny

Princeton's WordNet

1. hegemonynoun

   the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others

   "the hegemony of a single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederation"; "to say they have priority is not to say they have complete hegemony"; "the consolidation of the United States' hegemony over a new international economic system"

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1. List of paraphrases for "hegemony":

   hegemonism, hegemonic, hegemonist, hegemonistic, domination, hegemon, dominance, supremacy

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1. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro:

   To repeat what (former) President Hugo Chavez said, China is demonstrating to the world that a country does not necessarily seek hegemony as it grows stronger.

2. Douglas Paal:

   We are committed to peaceful development. No matter how the international landscape may evolve and how strong China may become, China will never pursue hegemony, expansion, or sphere of influence.

3. Benjamin Lessing:

   Most of the violence has been in this region, the north and the northeast region, and it's a place where these gangs are actively fighting each other to achieve some kind of local hegemony or at least carve out space, it doesn't mean these gangs don't exist in the rest of Brazil -- they do, and there's violence in other parts of Brazil too related to these gangs. But it seems like where the fighting is very intense right now is in this north-northeast region.

4. Zhao Jianhua:

   No matter how strong China may become, China will never seek hegemony or never establish spheres of influence.

5. Eric Edelman:

   The IRGC is the heart of the regime, so it’s hard to imagine this was a totally unauthorized or rogue act … it should be part of the negotiations because the United States has been, in my view, conceding a great deal on the nuclear issue and not contesting Iran’s effort to assert its hegemony throughout the region – this is just the latest manifestation of that.