How to Use multipolar in a Sentence

multipolar

adjective
  • Get our country focus on a world that is going to be multipolar.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Three weeks later, Putin gave the world a look at the multipolar future.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Russia's trying to portray this as a fight for a multipolar world.
    Abc News, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Even many Americans take it for granted that the world is now multipolar.
    Stephen G. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • How does India view China’s role in the multipolar world order against its own?
    Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The answer is no, because the new multipolar world will not have the same qualities as the one that prevailed two centuries ago.
    Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2026
  • My endpoint is a multipolar world of large regions who ‘do things’ differently.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 14 May 2022
  • Now, as the United States contends with a multipolar world, the Vietnamese ghost lingers still.
    Leo Tran, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2025
  • In today’s multipolar world, the concept of hegemony faces new challenges.
    Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 30 May 2025
  • Will America welcome a multipolar world in which unchecked dictatorships once again lay down the law?
    Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
  • In a multipolar world, spheres of interest become important again.
    Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Now, the world has gotten so multipolar, polarized and atomized.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Now our increasingly multipolar world has loosened up brand-new tangents of human yearning.
    Paul Salopek, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
  • Toward a multipolar world In recent years, a new multipolar world has emerged with at least four distinct sources of power.
    John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Is the world settling into a new, post-American multipolar order?
    Jamie Merchant, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2025
  • At the same time, our global leadership is contested by friends, allies and adversaries that seek to create a multipolar world.
    Dr. Robert G. Rabil, Sun Sentinel, 15 June 2024
  • And the idea that the world is no longer Western-centric, and increasingly multipolar, is widespread in the non-Western world.
    Galip Dalay, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Putin also assumed that a multipolar world would free him from American interference.
    Alan Cullison, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Russia and China have repeatedly pushed the idea that the future of geopolitics is multipolar.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 7 June 2026
  • And a multipolar world, where several great powers jostle for advantage on the global stage, harbors the potential for more conflicts, large and small.
    Paul Poast, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Critics of the bipolar assessment might also argue that the world is actually multipolar.
    Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The world will look more like the brutal multipolar era of the early 20th century than like the more orderly, if still brutal, world of the 19th.
    Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2026
  • In a multipolar world no longer dominated by the West, MbZ has found room not only for a city-state to maneuver, but often to get its own way.
    Andreas Krieg, Time, 3 June 2022
  • India insists that a multipolar world requires a multipolar Asia.
    Shyam Saran, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Analysts of the shifting dynamics of the twenty-first century see the emergence of a multipolar order, but that is too simplistic a framework.
    Anne-Marie Slaughter, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Venus Legacy is the multipolar radiofrequency device that is entirely non-invasive, and feels a little like a hot stone massage.
    Angela Lei, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • His challenge will be the erosion of American power in that time, managing adversaries who think a multipolar world order has already arrived.
    Nic Robertson, CNN, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Advertisement This has opened the door to a more multipolar financial architecture.
    Time, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The post–Cold War unipolar world, dominated by the United States, is becoming a multipolar one.
    Roger W. Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2025
  • This means that the first years of the new multipolar era will not be marked by adroit, mutually accommodating diplomacy, but by intense competition and confrontation.
    Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2026

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