How to Use Arab Spring in a Sentence

Arab Spring

noun
  • The site played a key role in the Arab Spring while also being the birthplace of the Milkshake Duck meme.
    Callum Booth, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • In 2011, the pro-democracy Arab Spring protests spiraled into proxy wars that spread through much of the Middle East.
    Cnn Staff, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Images and videos quickly made the rounds on social media, reminiscent of the Arab Spring of 2011.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • After the Arab Spring protests erupted in several countries in 2011, the group took control of the province of Saada.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Even in the early days of the Arab Spring that tension sparked intense debates over how far Washington should go to encourage the pro-democracy protests.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The overthrow of Saddam served both to inspire and limit public support for Arab Spring uprisings a few years later.
    Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The Arab Spring bloomed in 2011 with the help of decentralized social platforms, including Twitter and Facebook.
    Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Today, the fighting has spilled over from Gaza to Lebanon and at least six different fronts — upending the lives of tens of millions of people and triggering the region's biggest crisis since the Arab Spring in 2010.
    Barak Ravid, Axios, 7 Oct. 2024
  • While other Arab Spring nations descended into conflict, chaos or military rule, Tunisia stood out as bright spot.
    Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Her system predicted Cuba’s first cholera epidemic in decades and early Arab Spring riots.
    IEEE Spectrum, 21 May 2015
  • Crucially, the king managed to ride the waves of the disruptive Arab Spring more than a decade ago better than his neighbors, in part through domestic and political changes that had a more modern, democratic tone.
    Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Many believe their country’s decade-old democratic revolution has failed, a decade after Tunisia was the only nation to emerge from the Arab Spring protests with a democratic government.
    Bouazza Ben Bouazza, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
  • For example, Arab Spring countries experienced abrupt sociopolitical transitions because of significant imbalances between the level of human development and level of regime type inclusion.
    Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2023
  • That’s strikingly similar to most elections following Arab Spring uprisings, when nationalists generally prevailed in all-or-nothing presidential elections whereas Islamists managed to piece together powerful legislative coalitions.
    Hussein Ibish, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023

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