How to Use Arab in a Sentence
Arab
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The age of mass protest ushered in by the Arab Spring is hardly over, but the record of failures, setbacks, and cataclysms has been dispiriting.
—Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 2023-09-20
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Alongside Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the cities continue to rotate through the top four spots.
—Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 2023-06-28
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The Arab Spring forced Saleh out of office in 2012, even as the Houthis expanded their hold over the north.
—Samanth Subramanian, The New York Review of Books, 2023-11-30
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Michigan is home to several hundred thousand Arab Americans, most of whom live in the Detroit area.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 2024-02-02
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Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates reopened their embassies in Damascus.
—Sam Heller, Foreign Affairs, 2023-08-14
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But, sandwiched between the two superpowers, the United Arab Emirates is beginning to punch above its weight.
—TIME, 2024-03-20
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But no business license is registered under the company’s name in the United Arab Emirates.
—Angela Yang, NBC News, 2023-09-28
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The prisoner exchange on neutral grounds in the United Arab Emirates took place last December.
—Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 2023-09-08
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Tunisia had previously been described as the only democracy to have emerged from the 2011 Arab Spring movement.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 2023-07-19
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It was addressed to her 13-year-old son, Gaith, who left Gaza at the start of the war to live with his father in the United Arab Emirates.
—Edith M. Lederer, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
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The deluge of water triggered the question: Was this disaster caused by the United Arab Emirates’ cloud-seeding program?
—Cnn Com Wire Service, Orange County Register, 2024-04-17
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The civilian vessel had departed Dubai and was traveling to the United Arab Emirates when a dozen fast-attack craft surrounded it.
—Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 2023-08-03
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Climate advocates were concerned that the United Arab Emirates' ties to the fossil fuel industry would impact the outcome of the summit.
—Stephanie Ebbs, ABC News, 2023-12-13
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This was after the Arab Spring and the new government in Morocco was controlled by the Islamist party, and had a very conservative outlook.
—Martin Dale, Variety, 2023-11-30
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Trump officials have also internally floated the prospect of seeking an Intel investment from the United Arab Emirates.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
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Cloud-seeding, a process that adds crystals to clouds to prompt them to create rain, is already used in nations such as the United Arab Emirates to fight dry conditions and in Pakistan to mitigate smog.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 2023-12-26
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In 1947, the United Nations voted to establish two states for two peoples—one Jewish, one Arab—subject to a list of conditions.
—Ami Ayalon, Time, 18 Aug. 2025
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The two share a kiss, a moment that led to the film being banned in several countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
—Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2025
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Some countries, including Japan and the United Arab Emirates, have set out crypto regulations, but the size of these markets is relatively small and the scope of the rules is limited.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 2023-07-06
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Later that school year, a perfunctory and poorly organized Arab Heritage Month celebration was staged to appease my public criticism of the school’s silence on Gaza.
—Sahar Mustafah august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
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During her military career, Babbitt served in the Air Force with deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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Rare street protests have broken out in Bahrain as a mass hunger strike enters its fifth week, activists say, in a faint echo of the uprising that swept the Gulf kingdom starting in 2011, during the Arab Spring.
—Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 2023-09-06
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Anas Baba reported from Khan Younis, Gaza, and Aya Batrawy from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
—Aya Batrawy, NPR, 25 Aug. 2025
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The Vietnam War, Watergate, and the Arab Oil Embargo all contributed to a turbulent geopolitical environment.
—Steve Booren, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
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Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab – Dubai While Dubai may be associated with its vertical skyline, the recently opened Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab makes a different kind of statement by staying closer to the ground.
—Katharina Kotrba, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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Stonepeak’s new investment vehicle builds on a $1 billion deal in May with the Arab Energy Fund, an investment consortium of the 10 Arab oil-exporting countries, to back energy infrastructure projects in the region.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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People gather in the yard of the Ahli Arab hospital, also known as the Baptist hospital, to mourn and bid farewell to the bodies of victims killed in Israeli bombardment in Gaza City, on March 18, 2025.
—Natasha Turak, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2025
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According to the Seychelles Tourism Board, the industry (indirectly) accounts for nearly 70 percent of GDP, boosted by top-spending markets such as France, Germany, and, more recently, the United Arab Emirates.
—Chris Schalkx, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2025
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Montana and Sheikha Mahra first sparked romance rumors in 2024 after they were seen walking around the United Arab Emirates and were later seen going out for dinner, attending Paris Fashion Week and traveling around Dubai, according to TMZ.
—Caroline Blair, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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The last time Israel seriously contemplated West Bank annexation in 2020, Netanyahu eventually dropped the plans as part of the Abraham Accords that saw Israel normalize relations with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco.
—Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
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