Definition of brinkmanship
: the art or practice of pushing a dangerous situation or confrontation to the limit of safety especially to force a desired outcome
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Examples of brinkmanship in a Sentence
two nations caught up in nuclear brinksmanship
Recent Examples of brinkmanship from the Web
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Trump’s seeming recipe for dealing with a rogue nation: Use brinkmanship coming directly from the president, threaten obliteration by America’s unequaled firepower, and make talks a one-on-one affair.
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Data download time a week after Washington brinkmanship shut the government down.
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Of course, Congress has long operated by brinkmanship and there is plenty of history of last-second deals to avert crises.
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Despite his hair-raising propensity for brinkmanship, Trump’s reflexive disregard for the status quo may actually work to his advantage.
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By week’s end, however, officials on both sides (and Trump himself) were pulling back from their brinkmanship.
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That may be because their topics — racial conflict, pollution, religious intolerance, nuclear brinkmanship — have never gone away.
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And more Americans will get hurt the further the brinkmanship goes, especially if the stock market sell-off ends one of the longest bull markets in U.S. history.
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Democratic candidates have blamed Republicans for the growing trade dispute's impact on local farmers, and Republican leaders have been publicly pleading with Trump to pull back from the brinkmanship.
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First Known Use of brinkmanship
1956
BRINKMANSHIP Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of brinkmanship for English Language Learners
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: the practice of causing or allowing a situation to become extremely dangerous in order to get the results that you want
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