internationalism

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Recent Examples of internationalism The brand’s very name, derived from a Sanskrit word, encapsulates Ghiya’s internationalism. Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2025 Feminism and internationalism were some of its core themes. Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025 Hellbeck makes much of the virtues of Marxist internationalism—perhaps a little too much. Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025 Washington’s abandonment of internationalism and any concern for liberal norms and agenda setting is leading to a divergence of values and threat perceptions among Western countries that will fundamentally break the solidarity of the geopolitical West. Stewart Patrick, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for internationalism
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cosmopolitanism
Noun
  • For all her cosmopolitanism, Schjerfbeck didn’t do much to dispel this.
    Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • For Iranians – particularly those in the diaspora – Googoosh symbolizes an era of cosmopolitanism in late-Pahlavi Iran, the period from the mid-1950s until 1979 when Iran’s popular music, cinema, television and fashion embraced modernity and questioned social norms.
    Richard Nedjat-Haiem, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026

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“Internationalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/internationalism. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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