How to Use non-Western in a Sentence
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Western thought is not wrong, just as non-Western thought is not.
—Muraly Srinarayanathas, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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For years, however, many non-Western leaders have accused the court of having a pro-Western bias.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
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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
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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
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But empire has taken many non-Western forms, especially in the Middle East.
—Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
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The Academy has struggled to recognize non-Western cinema at all in that time.
—Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Russian sanctions woke up non-Western nations to the vulnerability of their U.S. dollar reserves.
—Sanford Mann, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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From the beginning, the program’s targeting of communities largely based on the presence of non-Western immigrants or their descendants has attracted widespread criticism.
—Emma Bubola, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
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In its economic relations, Moscow has capitalized on the opportunism of countries indifferent to the conflict: the Kremlin aims to integrate Russia into non-Western networks of trade, defense, and commerce.
—Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2023
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Further replication is needed, and cross-cultural studies using non-Western participants are scarce.
—Christian B. Miller, CNN, 25 June 2024
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Lou Harrison, an Oregonian gone south, was absorbing non-Western traditions.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
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This commitment to diversity is crucial in an industry that has historically overlooked non-Western beauty standards.
—Nawal Sari, refinery29.com, 23 May 2024
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On the other side were Rousseau’s, who saw in prehistory—and its putative living representatives among non-Western societies—forms of egalitarianism and harmony that modernity had destroyed.
—Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
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