How to Use neutrality in a Sentence

neutrality

noun
  • The newspaper is known for its political neutrality.
  • The country adopted an official policy of neutrality.
  • But even for a town its size, carbon and waste neutrality is a high bar.
    Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
  • At the same time, Ukrainians are wary of armed neutrality.
    Rajan Menon, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The first crisis of neutrality came with the General Strike of 1926.
    Dominic Green, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Nvidia had promised to keep Arm’s neutrality and pour in money.
    Ian King and bloomberg, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Do Val said he was told to prompt the judge to say things that would raise doubts about the vote’s validity and the electoral court’s neutrality.
    Rodrigo Pedroso, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
  • That still leaves much to do if the country as a whole wants to shift toward carbon neutrality.
    Bruce Rule, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2021
  • And the state’s plans for carbon neutrality have their critics.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The new neutral paint colors When a true white isn’t quite right, these shades offer neutrality and warmth.
    Raya Rockwood, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Ford and Ecolab have made a joint commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by the year 2050.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The key question is what neutrality for Ukraine would entail.
    Jan Smoleński, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Babies are taught to be racist or antiracist — there's no neutrality.
    Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 26 Oct. 2021
  • And Sweden, a longtime bastion of neutrality, joined the alliance in March.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2024
  • To do so is to defy the very essence of the profession, one supposedly based on neutrality.
    Keisha N. Blain, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2022
  • To be clear: What Bezos and Soon-Shiong did here, under a guise of neutrality, is take a very loud position.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The scoping plan is a roadmap for achieving carbon neutrality in the state, and is updated every five years.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The country gets about two-thirds of its electricity from clean sources, and its largest city, Copenhagen, aims to reach carbon neutrality in the next three years.
    New York Times, 31 May 2022
  • That said, as of late, my neutrality has started to feel forced and uncomfortable.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • But what this means now, to the Alabamians assembled in 1901, is that to withstand court challenges, racist laws with racist effects will have to be wrapped in the guise of race neutrality.
    al, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The leaders were only able to muster a promise to reach carbon neutrality by around the middle of the century and to end the financing of coal plants overseas.
    Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Unlearning the curvy Latina ideal, and returning to the body love (or, depending on the day, body neutrality) of my youth has been life-long work.
    Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Everyone noticed, and while the Swiss are known for their neutrality, wouldn’t surprise me if there'd been some schadenfreude in Switzerland.
    Gregg Doyel indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The neutrality treaty does give the U.S. the right to act if the canal’s operation is threatened due to military conflict — but not to reassert control.
    Will Weissert, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Sweden and Finland judged neutrality to be in their interests when faced by the Soviet threat, and in the Swedish case for centuries before that.
    New York Times, 16 May 2022
  • Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman set a new carbon neutrality date of 2060 — also far off the summit’s target.
    Anna M. Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
  • A lot of them have relied on offsets to establish some form of carbon neutrality.
    WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Outside the military realm, the right to neutrality does not stand in the way of solidarity and support for Ukraine and its people.
    Fox News, 10 May 2024
  • Her face is a mask of neutrality, with horror just underneath.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • What the cruise industry does here over the next five years will set the stage for the rest of Europe, which is currently trying to square the cruise industry’s emissions with the European Union’s goal of reaching climate neutrality by 2050.
    Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2024

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