How to Use unipolar in a Sentence

unipolar

adjective

• The end of the unipolar moment was hastened by these wars, and by much else.
  — Michael Krepon, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• For Africans, for black people, a unipolar world is hell on earth.
  — Lauren Markham, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• But this does not mean anyone wants to return to a unipolar world.
  — Parag Khanna, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2019
• Despite its strength, the United States does not preside over a unipolar world.
  — Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• At the end of the Cold War, China did not appear poised to threaten to America's unipolar moment.
  — chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2017
• Our best hope for safety in such times, as in difficult times past, is in American strength and will: the strength to recognize the unipolar world and the will to lead it.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 22 June 2018
• After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States was left with unmatched power in what is known as the unipolar moment.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2023
• The book, published in 1987, came out just before the fall of the Soviet Union and America’s unipolar moment of glory.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2020
• The countries in Asia have no desire to be dominated in a unipolar world by either China or us.
  — CBS News, 27 Nov. 2019
• There’s a big difference between how the United States behaved during the unipolar moment and how it’s behaved in the course of its history.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2022
• The unipolar world of American leadership that came before, where crises were dealt with, was hardly a model of good governance, calm, and strategic thinking.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2021
• Clinton’s views of America’s relations with Russia date back to the unipolar triumphalism of the 1990s and found clear expression during her time as secretary of state.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• 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
• But it's been especially so since 1989, when the collapse of our superpower rival inspired providential reveries of a unipolar world led, largely unimpeded, by the U.S. and its allies.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 9 Dec. 2020
• Analysts should therefore pay more attention to the characteristics of the U.S.-Chinese relationship than to whether the world is unipolar, bipolar, or multipolar.
  — Joshua Shifrinson, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2023
• Americans have enjoyed the economic, political, and security benefits of being number one in a unipolar world ever since the fall of the Soviet Union.
  — Time, 17 Oct. 2022
• Perhaps a unipolar planet can survive an American global strike arsenal.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2010
• Scholarship frequently examines how rising powers like China challenge the geopolitics of a unipolar world dominated by the United States.
  — Thomas Gift, Twin Cities, 5 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024