How to Use unipolar in a Sentence

unipolar

adjective
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  • 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
  • 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

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