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Word: conquerer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Apologies are powerful. They are disarming. I would even counsel using them in a Machiavellian way. We must all stoop to conquer sometimes. Moreover, apologies preempt further animosity by palliating the aggrieved. What's so terrible about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's the Strong Man That Knows How to Apologize | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...Black and White (3-1) dominated Wisconsin in all of its races, but could not conquer No. 1 Brown, the defending national champion...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Crew Falls to Brown | 4/10/2001 | See Source »

...dashing intergalactic warriors go, the Butt-Ugly Martians have their shortcomings. There's the discipline thing - the Martians may have been sent by their evil ruler to conquer the earth, but they took the assignment so they could bliss out on the planet's junk food and video games. There's the brains thing - the Martian perspective on life can be dim, dumb and completely impervious to logic. And finally, there's the looks thing: the Butt-Uglies have blue skin, big teeth, and bulging, bug eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Things Are Getting Ugly | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

With the game tied at 6-6 after eight innings, Harvard capitalized on a pair of errors and rallied for six runs in the top of the ninth to conquer the Knights...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Takes Good with the Bad in Opening Weekend | 3/21/2001 | See Source »

...have the ability, and with several years of hard work, we can have the technology to conquer the final frontier: space. With the Bush administration planning on cutting NASA funding, and the Russian space program in tatters, we cannot afford to wait for government to make the move. We must brave the new frontier ourselves...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, | Title: To Go Where No University Has Gone Before | 3/6/2001 | See Source »

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