How to Use multipolar in a Sentence
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Three weeks later, Putin gave the world a look at the multipolar future.
— George Packer, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022 -
Even many Americans take it for granted that the world is now multipolar.
— Stephen G. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023 -
How does India view China’s role in the multipolar world order against its own?
— Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2024 -
Get our country focus on a world that is going to be multipolar.
— Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024 -
Russia's trying to portray this as a fight for a multipolar world.
— Abc News, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2023 -
And the idea that the world is no longer Western-centric, and increasingly multipolar, is widespread in the non-Western world.
— Galip Dalay, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022 -
In a multipolar world no longer dominated by the West, MbZ has found room not only for a city-state to maneuver, but often to get its own way.
— Andreas Krieg, Time, 3 June 2022 -
This macro context, and the prosecution of policies such as the change to the Protocol, will relegate the UK well below the super powers of the multipolar world.
— Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 18 June 2022 -
Will America welcome a multipolar world in which unchecked dictatorships once again lay down the law?
— Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024 -
But if the world feels more comfortably multipolar these days, the ripple effects of the fighting in Ukraine are a reminder that globalization quickly links far-flung nations.
— New York Times, 24 Apr. 2022 -
My endpoint is a multipolar world of large regions who ‘do things’ differently.
— Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 14 May 2022 -
The space partnership has not been branded as a part of that agreement, but the backdrop — an increasingly contested, multipolar era — remains the same.
— New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022 -
At the same time, our global leadership is contested by friends, allies and adversaries that seek to create a multipolar world.
— Dr. Robert G. Rabil, Sun Sentinel, 15 June 2024 -
The rest of Asia is looking to see whether the US and China can still coexist in an increasingly complex and multipolar global economy.
— Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2023 -
From the start of Russia’s war with Ukraine, India has taken a neutral stance, citing its longtime ties with Moscow and insisting on its right to navigate a multipolar world its own way.
— Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023 -
And a multipolar world, where several great powers jostle for advantage on the global stage, harbors the potential for more conflicts, large and small.
— Paul Poast, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2023 -
As Europe’s economies became more integrated and China grew, the prospect of a multipolar world, in which the dollar shared reserve-currency duties with the euro and the renminbi, loomed.
— The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019 -
Russian President Vladimir Putin, the group’s current chair, declared Thursday that a new multipolar world order is taking shape before our eyes.
— Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2024 -
In this context the crucial question, given the context of a multipolar world driven by very different values, is how to realise the institutions of the 21st century.
— Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 29 May 2021 -
Some analysts say that is part of a strategy to pressure Washington to work with the Saudi government on its own terms; others say the prince sees an emerging multipolar world in which the United States plays a less dominant role.
— Kate Kelly, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023 -
Venus Legacy is the multipolar radiofrequency device that is entirely non-invasive, and feels a little like a hot stone massage.
— Angela Lei, Forbes, 2 June 2021 -
His challenge will be the erosion of American power in that time, managing adversaries who think a multipolar world order has already arrived.
— Nic Robertson, CNN, 18 Apr. 2021 -
Erdogan’s Turkey operates on the premise that the West is in decline and that a multipolar world is emerging, which ostensibly provides openings for Turkey’s rise to great-power status.
— Asli Aydintasbas, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2023 -
This move brought into stark relief a development that some experts have been predicting for years: the end of the post–Cold War, unipolar moment and the beginning of a new multipolar era, in which the United States must coexist with other powers.
— Blaise Malley, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023 -
Now our increasingly multipolar world has loosened up brand-new tangents of human yearning.
— Paul Salopek, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019 -
Under globalization the idea was that democracy would spread out from the democratic countries to the rest of the world, now, in a multipolar, contested world, democracy is simply one of a number of competing models or sets of values.
— Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 27 June 2022 -
The expansion signifies an important move in the attempt to reshape the global order into a multipolar world, with voices from the Global South at the center of the international agenda.
— Camilla Alcini, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2023 -
For diligent observers of the technology and gaming markets, Ahmed's transition to this area was a signifier of a new multipolar industry.
— Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 8 June 2024 -
As a strategy for managing a multipolar world, hedging entails keeping the channels of communication open with all the players.
— Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023 -
Tokugawa rejection of contact with Europeans, and the Omani defeat of the Portuguese across the western Indian ocean, illustrates how the world before 1800 was multipolar in civilizational terms.
— Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2012
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