multipolar

adjective

mul·ti·po·lar | \ ˌməl-tē-ˈpō-lər

, -ˌtī-\

Definition of multipolar

1 : having several poles (see pole entry 3) a multipolar generator multipolar mitoses

2 : having several dendrites multipolar neurons

3 : characterized by more than two centers of power or interest a multipolar world

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Now our increasingly multipolar world has loosened up brand-new tangents of human yearning. — Paul Salopek, The New Yorker, "A Twenty-Four-Thousand-Mile Walk Across Human History," 17 June 2019 The immediate post-Cold War world is not multipolar. — Jane Coaston, Vox, "Charles Krauthammer was the anti-Breitbart conservative writer," 21 June 2018 The Arab Gulf monarchies can be expected to pursue closer ties with these powers, making the Gulf look more like a multipolar system than at any point since the end of the Cold War. — Jonathan Fulton, Washington Post, "China is trying to pull Middle East countries into its version of NATO," 21 June 2017 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, "After Trump trip, is Europe ready to go it alone?," 31 May 2017

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