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
• Here, influences from Cubism and non-Western art abound.
  — Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Poland, which is overwhelmingly white, has long been averse to non-Western migration.
  — Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
• The Russian national team are still playing friendlies against non-Western countries.
  — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
• Years of pressure have pushed Belarus further toward non-Western partners.
  — Tatsiana Kulakevich, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
• For years, however, many non-Western leaders have accused the court of having a pro-Western bias.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
• The Academy has struggled to recognize non-Western cinema at all in that time.
  — Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Naima was a Muslim convert who likely spun Coltrane’s compass toward non-Western cultures.
  — Ian Penman, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
• 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
• The annual event gathers the heads of Russia, India and other non-Western nations.
  — Evelyn Cheng,priyanka Salve, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
• 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
• 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
• There were extremely rich philosophical traditions in the non-Western world that your great books classes completely ignore.
  — Big Think, 6 Nov. 2025
• This could perpetuate cultural biases or lead to conclusions that are not aligned with the perspectives of those from non-Western backgrounds.
  — Alexandra Figueroa, The Conversation, 14 July 2026
• 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
• 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
• At the time, a counter-discourse was also emerging that sought to challenge the Atlanticist hegemony over the historicization of art from the non-Western world.
  — Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• For many Muslim reformers, Japan represented a non-Western model of modernity.
  — Mimi Hanaoka, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026
• Krishna is dedicated to expanding the representation of non-Western foods in America.
  — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
• 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
• The hypnotic motifs and stylized figures in these collections lit a fuse for Nilsson and her peers, seeding a fascination with non-Western art that has continued throughout her career.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
• 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