How to Use bilateral in a Sentence

bilateral

adjective
  • This bilateral surgery was the least painful of all my four prior knee and two foot surgeries.
    — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • At the same time, though, there is little appetite for that to be a bilateral process.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • At best these bilateral deals with Ukraine will serve as pledges of support.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 8 July 2024
  • But key details must be worked out in a bilateral agreement.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2025
  • But the more that countries locked down bilateral deals, the longer the rest of the world would have to wait for doses.
    — Nicholas Kulish, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2020
  • As for the bloc's bilateral trade with Russia?
    — Steve Sedgwick, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The topic is likely to come up in bilateral trade talks that are set to begin in the coming weeks.
    — Jenny Leonard, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
  • The bilateral meeting lasted just over two hours.
    — Katherine Doyle, NBC news, 14 May 2026
  • The thawing of bilateral ties grew out of talks in Abu Dhabi on ending the war.
    — Peter Weber, TheWeek, 6 Feb. 2026
  • At the very least, aiming for bilateral trade balances with every country does not make sense.
    — Ernie Tedeschi, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The 34-year-old catcher had been sidelined by bilateral calf strains.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Then there really isn't much else to talk about in terms of bilateral relations.
    — CBS News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The two countries have much bigger fish to fry in their bilateral relations.
    — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Then on Wednesday, the two held a bilateral meeting.
    — Kyra Colah, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
  • Trump could perhaps accept a bilateral meeting with Putin as a sign of progress toward peace.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Taiwan is one of the main sources of tension in the bilateral relationship.
    — Taijing Wu, arkansasonline.com, 1 Dec. 2024
  • The most hopeful is that the bilateral model proves nimbler than critics expect.
    — Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
  • And until the core problem with the bilateral relationship is fixed, that price will only grow.
    — Andrew P. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The initiative was meant to freeze around $11 billion in bilateral debt payments this year.
    — Alonso Soto, Bloomberg.com, 15 June 2020
  • Some observers suspect that such a severe sentence so long after the crime was related to the bilateral rift.
    — Washington Post, 8 July 2020
  • That’s in addition to the bilateral knee tendinitis that has popped up throughout the season.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2025
  • But the White House did release photos from the bilateral meeting.
    — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The other set of complexities is that, by and large, these have become bilateral agreements.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Marcos held a bilateral meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the summit in Kazan.
    — CBS News, 20 June 2026
  • At the same time, these leaders are signing bilateral deals that further exacerbate the gap between the haves and have nots.
    — Time, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The Kremlin, to be sure, was speaking only of bilateral contacts.
    — Thomas Graham, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Ephemera is a bilateral entity for the fiction writer.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • Much of the bilateral maneuvering boils down to timing.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The major difference between the single-leg and bilateral hip thrust setup in in the foot placement.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Yet for all of the convergence, areas of bilateral tensions remain.
    — Hyeran Jo, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025

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