How to Use binational in a Sentence

binational

adjective
  • Chris Blanco is a binational artist in the truest sense of the word.
    — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The two sides agreed to form a binational commission to track progress on the issue.
    — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
  • What’s more, their work, in varying ways, deals in themes of that binational identity.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Remesas have long served as a sort of binational health insurance.
    — Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The 2020 school year would have been the eighth year of the binational teacher program.
    — Nik Streng, oregonlive, 22 June 2020
  • This year’s Comic-Con library card will be an homage to the binational region.
    — Alexandra Mendozawriter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2022
  • Simply removing the fence may be enough to improve some binational species’ prospects, Flesch says.
    — April Reese, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2021
  • But binational workers and students and businesses had no choice.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Critics say the movement aims to erase Israel and replace it with a single binational state.
    — Ilan Ben Zion, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Similar efforts have been made in the past in the binational region for cross-border students.
    — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Their latest artwork is in front of the Mexican side of the binational garden.
    — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Unlike human visitors, the binational elk don't need a passport to cross the border.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • For the average high schooler, an eight-hour school day is enough to elicit complaints—but for binational students, the school day is the least of their concerns.
    — Aina Marzia, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
  • That would mean a choice between a country that is secular and democratic but binational, or a Jewish apartheid regime.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The river as main water source supports more than 2 million residents in the binational region.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Fourth, the university should be binational by design.
    — Christos Korgan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • The impact of losing the binational teachers this year is hard to put into words, Ortiz-Chavolla said.
    — Nik Streng, oregonlive, 22 June 2020
  • In the southern part of the state, many families have for generations routinely gone back and forth over the border, living a kind of binational life.
    — Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Their goal was not a Palestinian state (which the partition plan sought to establish), and certainly not a binational one.
    — Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2023
  • Yet our higher education systems have never been structured to fully support this kind of binational flow of talent.
    — Adela De La Torre, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The project is part of a binational effort to stem cross-border pollution that has since last year shuttered shorelines as far north as Coronado at a record pace.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
  • As the first binational winners, the two cities continue their legacy of collaboration, paving the way for more innovation in the area.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
  • The pride of being both Mexican and American in a binational border.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
  • That killing was a binational tragedy, with victims from El Paso and its Mexican sister city of Juárez.
    — Amina Khan Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Critics say the effort aims to delegitimize Israel and ultimately erase it from the map, replacing it with a binational state.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Critics say the movement aims to delegitimize Israel and ultimately erase it from the map, replacing it with a binational state.
    — Fortune, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Some turned back to armed struggle, while others began to gravitate to the idea of a binational state in which Palestinians would enjoy equal rights with Jews.
    — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • What Comer – and others – should know is that El Paso and Juarez make up one of the largest binational communities in the world.
    — Peter Svarzbein, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
  • And there is the idea of a binational state in which Jews would become a minority, thus ending Israel’s status as a Jewish state.
    — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Over the next several years, the couple kept up a binational relationship during which time their two daughters, Archana and Angana, were born.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020

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