How to Use multipolar in a Sentence

multipolar

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Scholz said Africa must play a greater role in international politics as a way to reflect its growing importance in an increasingly fractured and multipolar world order.
    Michael Nienaber, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023
  • Beijing and Moscow certainly harbor ambitions for a new multipolar world.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The 19th-century world was emphatically multipolar, even if the British Empire held outsize influence in some areas outside Europe.
    Paul Kennedy, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Others lament that a US turning away from its traditional leadership role would not simply result in a more multipolar world, but would undermine the pillars on which American security and prosperity were built over the past 70 years.
    Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2017
  • Putin and his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, frequently extol a new multipolar world, with vague words about democratizing the Security Council.
    Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023

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