How to Use non-Western in a Sentence

non-Western

adjective

• Western thought is not wrong, just as non-Western thought is not.
  — Muraly Srinarayanathas, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
• Care needs to be taken to how these concepts are lived, understood and talked about in non-Western settings.
  — Miki Mori, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2024
• The first decades of the MSC did not include non-Western countries and there has been an effort to include more people from other regions in the last few years.
  — The Dial, 18 Mar. 2025
• The United States needs to show that its interests are not in opposition to those of non-Western countries.
  — Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• For years, however, many non-Western leaders have accused the court of having a pro-Western bias.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
• This stance played well on the world stage, especially among non-Western countries outside the Middle East such as India.
  — Carol E. B. Choksy, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024
• Rauch promised to expand its repertoire to include non-Western classics and to diversify both the company and the staff.
  — Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2024
• But empire has taken many non-Western forms, especially in the Middle East.
  — Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Academy has struggled to recognize non-Western cinema at all in that time.
  — Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
• Czech President Petr Pavel has put together a ‘shell coalition’ that is trying to fund the purchase of nearly a million shells held in non-Western countries.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
• The Transcendentalists were famous, in their time, for their interest in Indian and other forms of non-Western thought.
  — Jeremy David Engels, Fortune Well, 21 June 2023
• The minister wants to step up German arms deliveries to countries in the Indo-Pacific, and perhaps to other non-Western partners around the globe.
  — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• However, with sanctions and other forms of pressure, Venezuela would not be hedging positions, but being left at the mercy of non-Western actors.
  — Elias Ferrer, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Carbon emissions would increase because there is a dearth of renewables and the world would have to burn dirtier fossil fuels from non-Western entities.
  — Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
• Ankara, for its part, will need to recognize that deepening its ties with the non-Western world in ways that antagonize European allies is not sustainable.
  — Mustafa Kutlay, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2025
• Numerous studies have found that students—even those from non-Western cultures—view scientists as white, male, and wearing a white lab coat, while holding chemistry glassware such as beakers or flasks.
  — Manasee Weerathunga, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2023
• But Russia has continued to find other non-Western markets for exports to get around the cap, particularly in China and India.
  — Jeff Stein and Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2024
• Zoom in: Sovereign wealth funds are common in oil-rich, typically non-Western countries that run budget and/or trade surpluses.
  — Emily Peck, Axios, 3 Feb. 2025
• Russian sanctions woke up non-Western nations to the vulnerability of their U.S. dollar reserves.
  — Sanford Mann, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• The governments of many major non-Western powers are attempting to take a greater role on the global stage while facing persistent or increasing instability at home.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024
• Putin and Xi have worked in tandem to build out non-Western international groupings, while ramping up joint military drills and supporting one another in forums like the United Nations.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
• This year, close Moscow ally Belarus will become a full member of the organization, and its admission indicates how Russia wants to bolster blocs of non-Western countries.
  — Emma Burrows, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2024
• Just as crucially, major states in the global South that have long and rightly criticized international courts for targeting only non-Western actors and outright adversaries of the West must now step up.
  — Boyd Van Dijk, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2025
• On top of that, equality before the law is a basic principle of justice, but until this point, the ICC has mainly prosecuted authoritarian and non-Western leaders.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
• The initiative is part of the Kremlin’s overall efforts to deepen economic and political ties with non-Western countries amid European and American sanctions.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
• The report also points to continued issues at Meta moderating content in non-Western or non-English speaking countries, which the company has faced criticism over before.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 25 July 2024
• If a neighborhood fares poorly on two of the first four metrics and has at least 50 percent non-Western residents, the authorities take steps to spur integration, such as encouraging others to move into the community.
  — Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
• According to Henig, however, in its early years, the Bloomsbury Group was uninterested in non-Western literature.
  — Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 14 May 2025
• If success is to follow, any Western company’s approach to a very different, decidedly non-Western culture has to be highly sensitive to local behaviors and norms.
  — Muraly Srinarayanathas, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
• Poland, which is overwhelmingly white, has long been averse to non-Western migration.
  — Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026