How to Use Arab Spring in a Sentence

Arab Spring

noun
  • This was after the Arab Spring.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
  • But, as the Arab Spring taught us, there is no guarantee that what comes after will, in fact, be better.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Twitter was credited with fuelling the Arab Spring.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The specter of the Arab Spring, where dictators fell across the region only for chaos to follow, looms large.
    — Paul Wallace, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • He was inspired by the 2008 recession and the Arab Spring.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Simply put, any attempt to produce a new version of the Mubarak regime is doomed to fail as the Arab Spring has clearly shown.
    — Muhammad Mansour, Foreign Affairs, 18 May 2016
  • Around the same time Epstein was helping Abdulhak with his son, the Arab Spring reached Yemen.
    — Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Almost five years after the Arab Spring rocked the city, Cairo is welcoming back a luxury hotel.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The Arab Spring uprisings reached Syria in 2011 and blazed up into civil war.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Both were arrested and sentenced to death for crimes committed as teenagers during the Arab Spring, rights groups and people close to their families said.
    — Muhammad Darwish, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Optimists pointed to the remarkable events of the Arab Spring protests as proof that the Internet could help spread democracy and freedom.
    — ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Also, imposition of democracy from outside proved murky as in Afghanistan and in the countries that underwent the Arab Spring.
    — Debidatta A. Mahapatra, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026
  • An example of this is the Anonymous hacktivist group supporting WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring.
    — Carlos Morales, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The Arab Spring uprisings of 2011-12 owe much of their origin to a youth bulge in the Middle East.
    — John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026
  • During the Arab Spring of 2011, protesters throughout the Middle East took to the streets to demand change.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • After the Arab Spring, there was massive cultural destruction happening in the Middle East.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 7 May 2026
  • Work was later disrupted by the 2011 Arab Spring, before resuming in full in 2016.
    — Ayat Al-Tawy, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The uprisings moved through the region as the Arab Spring ignited, and tens of millions of frustrated residents went online to coordinate.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This shift was shaped by three decades of upheaval—the collapse of the Soviet Union, the September 11 attacks, and the Arab Spring.
    — Kamran Bokhari, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The early phase of the Arab Spring seemed to vindicate their optimistic analysis; the subsequent descent of Syria and Libya into civil war, not so much.
    — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
  • King Abdullah himself met with the group’s leaders in 2011 to discuss the movement’s calls for political reform after the outbreak of the Arab Spring.
    — Aaron Magid, Foreign Affairs, 3 May 2016
  • Fertilizer affordability has deteriorated to levels not seen since the Arab Spring.
    — John W.h. Denton Ao, Fortune, 6 June 2026
  • First announced in 1992, plans have endured Egypt’s Arab Spring-era revolution in 2011 and a military coup d’état two years later.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Starting with the Arab Spring in the early 2010s, social media became a vital way to verify claims and monitor conflicts, according to Godin.
    — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Construction was halted by events like the 2011 Arab Spring and the COVID-19 pandemic.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Silence was the surest survival strategy – until Syrians rose up during the Arab Spring and Assad’s brutal crackdown on protesters led the country into a decade-long civil war.
    — Tala Alrajjal, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Countries that tried to adopt Western-style democracy quickly after the Arab Spring largely failed, often descending into chaos, civil war or new forms of authoritarianism.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Little wonder authoritarian states were spurred by the Arab Spring into enacting draconian internet controls.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • He was appointed by Assad in 2011 as governor of Deir ez-Zor after anti-government protests that spread across the country during the Arab Spring.
    — Ashley Carnahan, FOXNews.com, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Since then, Abd El-Fattah became a leading voice and outspoken thinker during the 2011 Arab Spring in Egypt that brought down Mubarak’s government.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025

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