How to Use lead the world in a Sentence

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  • We could be trusted to lead the world.
    Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • And that our country gets back on track again — to achieve great things and lead the world.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Once, that faith inspired our nation to stand up to Russia and to feed and lead the world.
    Billy Ray, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
  • London was willing to step aside and let Washington lead the world.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2020
  • And a handful believes America should no longer lead the world.
    Marco Rubio, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The race to lead the world’s fifth-largest economy is expected to draw many contenders.
    Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • British industry wants lead the world in achieving a net-zero future.
    Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2023
  • A number of countries on the continent now lead the world in rates of infection.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The United States must lead the world in production of these advanced chips.
    Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • As the doc reported, Black women lead the world in the surgical procedure.
    Essence, 5 Jan. 2022
  • On a related note, despite KP’s exit, the Mavs still lead the world in ex-Knicks.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2022
  • China continues to lead the world in EVs, producing well over half the global output this year.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
  • But Joe Biden and Xi Jinping lead the world’s two major rival powers and by far the two largest economies.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2023
  • Europe’s ambitions to lead the world in green technologies risk fizzling out in the face of China’s dominance.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune Europe, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The United States must lead the world in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel.
    ABC News, 12 Sep. 2021
  • China is uniquely positioned to lead the world in the automation economy.
    The Economist, 25 June 2020
  • China’s investments have allowed the country to lead the world in production, equipment and product design.
    Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • China and the United States lead the world in rapidly adding battery storage energy systems.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
  • His successor will be tasked to lead the world’s fourth-largest economy at a time of increasing living costs, which has been exacerbated by a weak yen.
    Yumi Asada, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The aspiration must be for the United States, not its adversaries, to lead the world on this technology.
    Robert Gebelhoff, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • Without doubt the British used their considerable diplomatic and military muscle to lead the world in the suppression of the slave trade.
    James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021
  • No reason why American workers can’t lead the world in the production of electric vehicles and batteries.
    Tim Darnell, ajc, 29 Apr. 2021
  • No reason why American workers can't lead the world in the production of electric vehicles and batteries.
    CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Since Europe’s alliance with America has failed to consolidate, China wants to lead the world.
    Michał Matlak, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2020
  • The United States continues to lead the world in military expenditures.
    Daniel Cody, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The race to lead the world’s fifth-largest economy is expected to draw many contenders from a large pool of ambitious Democratic politicians looking for their next perch.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Reports, though, have surfaced that Isaacman recently met with Duffy to be considered once again as a candidate to lead the world's largest space agency.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Korea’s Samsung continues to lead the world in mobile technologies and Japan’s Sony has emerged as a global leader in gaming.
    Bysoumitra Dutta, Fortune Europe, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But in the year ahead, New York has an opportunity to lead the world in delivering real action that becomes a model for cities everywhere.
    Stephen Hammer, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Biden's attempts to lead the world in the battle against climate change risk being undone not by Republicans but his own Democratic Party.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 21 Sep. 2021

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