NONINTERVENTIONIST Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

noninterventionist

adjective

as in nonaligned

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Recent Examples of noninterventionist And Secrets suspects that a younger, noninterventionist crowd would have boosted Vance’s numbers. — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 30 Mar. 2026 Does the beginning of this war tell us anything meaningful about the long-running battle between the interventionist and noninterventionist wings of American conservativism? — Suzanne Schneider, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2026 Conservatives emphasized a return to a noninterventionist policy. — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025

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Russia has been able to weather Western sanctions largely by ramping up trade with nonaligned countries, particularly India and China.

— Tristan Bove, Fortune, 30 June 2026
These are hedging strategies adapted to today’s more fragmented international order, while the older divide separated aligned states from nonaligned states.

— Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 4 June 2026

Definition of nonaligned

Adjective

OpenAI backs a national AI safety standard, with independent audits and incident reporting for frontier models.

— Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Some depend on Iran more than others, Ahmadi said, adding that currently Yemen’s Houthi rebels are likely the most independent.

— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of independent

Adjective

Crawford, however, was surprisingly hands-off when Gerber and her brother, Presley, decided to pursue modeling.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026
The public is increasingly skeptical of allowing the AI industry to govern itself, which is pushing legislators to rethink their hands-off approach, even as AI money pours like Niagara Falls into elections.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026

Definition of hands-off

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Establishing a sovereign wealth fund to capture wealth created by AI to benefit all Americans could be a start.

— Patrick J. Schena, Fortune, 31 July 2026
Although sovereign wealth funds serve a wide range of purposes, their most basic function, broadly defined, is to hold and invest government savings to support the current and future needs of citizens.

— Patrick J. Schena, The Conversation, 30 July 2026

Definition of sovereign

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Recent incidents expose critical security risks with autonomous AI agents, which act unsupervised using credentials and tools.

— Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
The system also avoided hazardous conditions while controlling the spacecraft’s orientation, showing how autonomous software could reduce dependence on ground commands during military and scientific missions.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of autonomous

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According to her, these include a well-fitting pair of jeans, a neutral blazer, and quality basic T-shirts and button-downs.

— Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Aug. 2026
Infantino’s traditional support base in Africa, which has 54 of the 211 voting members, had been neutral about the offers of game-changing money for many of them.

— Graham Dunbar, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of neutral

Adjective

Almost half of the respondents were listed as Democrats with the rest made up of Republicans and unaffiliated voters.

— DJ Simmons, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026
What did was distributed presence, unaffiliated supporters quietly carrying the cost of other people's staying power, until a government that could ignore a viral moment couldn't ignore a month-long occupation.

— Penny Abeywardena, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of unaffiliated

Adjective

City races are nonpartisan and candidates carry no party affiliation.

— Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2026
Recent history suggests that the only effective counter to such meddling is a public statement alerting voters to the deception, by some credibly neutral, nonpartisan authority.

— David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

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