How to Use the Mideast in a Sentence

the Mideast

noun
  • And the key question, will the conflict spread to other countries in the Mideast?
    CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Sea combat in the Mideast remains risky, something the Navy knows well.
    Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2024
  • For the latest news on the conflict in the Mideast, view our live updates file for Tuesday, May, 7.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
  • At no point had either of them come to the swing state to discuss the Mideast conflict with voters.
    Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
  • But that appears to be changing amid Russia’s war in Ukraine and turmoil in the Mideast.
    Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Even more damaging were some strange findings in the Mideast.
    James Shreeve, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Eubank questioned what little FBR could do in the Mideast desert.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Miami airport just added flights to Latin America and a link to the Mideast.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 12 June 2024
  • And its guest host, alum Pete Davidson, addressed the ongoing tragedy in the Mideast head on.
    Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Lena, busy raising the children and worried by the rising tensions in the Mideast, did not visit Gaza for 12 years.
    Vivian Yee, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • But whether China can maintain its distance from the Mideast’s troubles is less clear.
    Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The raid comes as tensions in the Mideast are soaring to new heights and the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Gaza war nears.
    Reuters, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Iran relies on a network of proxy forces through the Mideast to counter the U.S. and Israel, its arch regional enemy.
    Lou Kesten, Bassem Mroue, Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The world’s gotten a lot more dangerous in the last few days as the dockworkers’ strike threatens to hike the likes of grocery prices and the Mideast teeters on the brink of widespread warfare.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
  • For Ameri, whose family remained in the Mideast, Soble quickly became like kin.
    USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
  • For Ameri, whose family remained in the Mideast, Soble quickly became like kin.
    Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2024
  • While the West still doesn’t recognize the Taliban as Kabul’s government, nations in the Mideast and elsewhere have reached out to them.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune Asia, 5 June 2024
  • This interactive map shows how the Israel-Hamas conflict has spread beyond the Mideast.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • As a real-world demonstration of relevance, the Mideast crisis couldn’t have come at a better time.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Media coverage of the war in the Mideast talks of the rising toll of Palestinian casualties.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The assassination renewed fears of a regional war in the Mideast.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 31 July 2024
  • Israel, Iran’s main rival in the Mideast, also has its own robust air defenses.
    Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2023
  • Looking forward, Israel and the Mideast will retain their potency as both news sagas — and wedge issues.
    Lloyd Green, New York Daily News, 27 June 2024
  • After finishing high school in 1984, Lena visited the Mideast to see relatives and friends.
    Vivian Yee, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Israel is the Mideast’s only democracy in a very tough neighborhood.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 May 2024
  • Outside of the tensions over the nuclear deal and Iran's atomic ambitions, a series of attacks and ship seizures in the Mideast have been attributed to Tehran since 2019.
    Jon Gambrell and Matthew Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the protesters also said their struggle for People’s Park had much in common with the fight of Palestinian people to have a safe and secure homeland in the Mideast.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The horrific violence in the Mideast has, of course, spurred responses from those in the public eye, including those in the world of entertainment.
    Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • That's consistent with some fossil finds that place anatomically modern humans in the Mideast at roughly the same time.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 July 2024
  • The attack potentially marked a major escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Mideast linked to the Israel-Hamas war.
    Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Dec. 2023

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