How to Use bilateral in a Sentence

bilateral

adjective
  • The president will hold a bilateral meeting at 5:30 p.m. at the White House with the new British prime minister.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 10 July 2024
  • Mexican officials denied the detention was linked to the bilateral meeting three days earlier.
    Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 23 July 2022
  • Japan is now the largest bilateral donor of aid in Asia.
    Damien Cave Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
  • At the same time, though, there is little appetite for that to be a bilateral process.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • At best these bilateral deals with Ukraine will serve as pledges of support.
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 8 July 2024
  • The Lakers said Davis has bilateral Achilles tendinopathy and a left hip spasm and James has left ankle peroneal tendinopathy.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • That underscores the irony of the Chinese mantra of win-win in bilateral affairs as, in reality, that means that the Chinese win twice.
    Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 20 June 2023
  • The major difference between the single-leg and bilateral hip thrust setup in in the foot placement.
    Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 10 Feb. 2023
  • There, and in three hours of bilateral meetings with Xi later that day, the Russian leader stressed his close alignment with China.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Then there really isn't much else to talk about in terms of bilateral relations.
    CBS News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Eight of the events were NATO events, like bilateral meetings with world leaders and working sessions.
    Megan Lebowitz, NBC News, 16 July 2024
  • That bilateral agreement remains in force, but the United States deferred the outcome of its review when the four-year mark came up in January.
    Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 10 May 2024
  • The resumption of the bilateral summit — which in better times used to be an annual event — was the first sign of an effort to reset relations.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The right toys should push kids to use both sides of their bodies to build bilateral coordination and motor planning.
    Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 19 Sep. 2022
  • As a deaf person who wears bilateral cochlear implants, the issue of accessibility has been close to her heart for a long time.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The effort aimed to broker bilateral deals between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
    Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • But if your dog develops a cataract in the right eye three years later, it’s considered a bilateral condition, and the insurer will deny the claim.
    Kat Tretina, wsj.com, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In light of this, analysts in Pakistan have questioned the wisdom of Mr. Dar’s comments on restoring bilateral trade.
    Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, then traveled to Seoul for a bilateral meeting, the first such visit in 12 years.
    John Yoon, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • This is because Russia-China bilateral trade has grown more rapidly and is stronger than India’s.
    Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 11 May 2023
  • Neal had a bilateral mastectomy and breast reconstruction, and would move on with her life as a survivor.
    Lyndsay Levingston, Essence, 18 June 2023
  • Wang said Beijing was also ready to work with Washington, adding that bilateral economic relations were important not just to the two countries, but to the rest of the world.
    Michelle Toh, CNN, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Some economists caution that the U.S. reduction in trade with China might not be as sharp as bilateral data shows.
    Simon Romero, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • His mission is taking place as bilateral relations have plummeted over a half-dozen years to their lowest point in decades.
    David Pierson, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • In the last decade of his life, in addition to the acute mania and blindness from bilateral cataracts, George also possibly suffered from dementia.
    Town & Country, 8 May 2023
  • When bilateral relations began to sour in the past few years, members of the Chinese public started to demand the return of giant pandas.
    Didi Tang, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • After their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office, the two leaders met with families of Americans held hostage by Hamas.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 July 2024
  • Our study investigated 21 children and adults—aged six to 36 at the time of the study—who had been born blind because of dense bilateral cataracts and who had gained sight through cataract removal surgery only months or even years later.
    Cordula Hölig, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
  • But Bosa’s college career ended four games in thanks to what was diagnosed as a bilateral core muscle injury.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
  • My bilateral movements—exercises performed with both sides of the body, like the air squat—were near perfect and symmetrical.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 17 Mar. 2023

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