How to Use geopolitics in a Sentence

geopolitics

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  • The story of why the two countries couldn’t agree on the height and resolve the world’s highest border dispute is part geopolitics and part geodesy.
    — Eric Bellman, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The new joint measurement also has an element of geopolitics.
    — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2020
  • These go far beyond geopolitics and range from science to exploration to the commercialization of space.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2020
  • There is a ludicrous femme fatale (Phoebe Phelps), the intimate portraits of the past, much gassing on about geopolitics.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Team Biden thinks that dealing with these issues will allow the U.S. to form global coalitions that will drive geopolitics into the background.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Its core readers will be followers of the worlds of oil and geopolitics (or anyone who was obsessed with the dysfunction and bluster of the WeWork saga).
    — Rachel King, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2020
  • These inscriptions, shared across nations and cultures, are the organization’s way of declaring that culture transcends geopolitics.
    — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020
  • The fourth feature of Trump’s foreign policy was to prioritize economic growth and leverage the new geopolitics of energy.
    — Mackubin Thomas Owens, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
  • As the world grapples with another major wave of coronavirus infections, the race for a vaccine has intensified and been made all the more competitive by fractious geopolitics.
    — Ernesto Londoño, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • As the geopolitics play out, U.S. troops are likely to stay in place.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Chess has been on the front lines of geopolitics before.
    — Andrew Beaton and Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The end of the Cold War might have temporarily cooled the geopolitics of chess.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Australia finds itself on the front line of the new geopolitics.
    — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 22 May 2022
  • What will happen now will reflect the way that geopolitics has changed over the past two decades.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 22 Aug. 2021
  • But geopolitics meant his stay in Korea would be a bit longer.
    — Steve Price, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • For much of the 20th century, geopolitics was shaped by the struggle for oil.
    — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2022
  • For her, the spear of geopolitics is tipped with transphobia.
    — Danielle MacKey, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2022
  • As bad as this latest round of gangster geopolitics is, what unfolds in the coming hours and days will set the world's course in the years ahead.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Project Owl users chat about geopolitics and current events.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 17 July 2021
  • Australia is raking in huge amounts of cash from coal—due both to bad geopolitics and bad weather.
    — Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
  • None of this does away with geopolitics entirely, of course.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The frontline in the war is sometimes called a new Berlin Wall, a dividing line in today’s geopolitics.
    — New York Times, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The election comes at a pivotal moment not just for geopolitics but the future of our planet.
    — David A. Andelman, CNN, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Thanks to the forces of economics and geopolitics, most of the folks taking care of us, our parents and our grandparents are the world’s migrants.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The book notes the rising importance of Asia in the global geopolitics of energy.
    — Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • In short, the Olympics are built on excess, tangled in geopolitics, rife with corruption and cheating.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2021
  • The events that have cast a shadow across Europe in early 2022 are very different than those that drove Western geopolitics in the Cold War era.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Either move would be fraught, mixing sports and geopolitics at a time when U.S.-China tensions are already high.
    — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The 2022 Winter Olympics will be remembered for geopolitics, not sports.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Richard Bronze, the head of geopolitics at Energy Aspects, a research firm, estimates that the actual cut will be only about one million barrels a day.
    — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022

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