How to Use expansionism in a Sentence

expansionism

noun
  • True, expansionism has won just about every time, but there is still room to fight.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Such news might once have fueled talk about Chinese expansionism.
    — Andrew Peaple, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
  • The Quad is a strategic group seen as a bulwark against Chinese expansionism.
    — William Mauldin, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Again, any chance of seeking common ground in checking Chinese expansionism was lost.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Israel, too, has been worried about Iran’s expansionism in Syria, through Hezbollah.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Iranian aggression against unarmed ships could be a test for further demonstrations of power and expansionism on the part of Tehran.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But a geostrategic shift to the advantage of China’s authoritarian expansionism would harm the world for decades to come.
    — Jaushieh Joseph Wu, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2024
  • Erdogan laid out his blueprint for Turkish expansionism in crystal clear terms back in 2016.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 8 June 2022
  • Nor did the candidates attempt to justify Vladimir Putin’s war of expansionism and conquest in Ukraine.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The public, according to polls, does not support the President’s expansionism.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Historical Baltic and Polish fears of Russian expansionism make sense from above.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Biden reiterated his plan to convene a summit of democracies, where China's expansionism would be a big part of the agenda.
    — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
  • In the end, drawing attention to Russian expansionism did Romney little good.
    — Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 11 Jan. 2017
  • Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine is a sign of the imperial expansionism that has defined the Russian state for so much of its history.
    — Orlando Figes, Time, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Is the alliance not crucial to deterring the Kremlin’s aggression and expansionism?
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Yet the picture is more complicated than simple Chinese expansionism.
    — Yu Jie, Time, 13 May 2026
  • The same set of policies could be applied across Central Asia to counter both Chinese expansionism and Russian malice.
    — Tuvshinzaya Gantulga, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The nineteen-seventies happened, and, with them, both the end of American domestic expansionism and a new weariness with modernism.
    — Alexandra Lange, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • What kind of people back a government that feeds an ally into the maw of Russian authoritarian expansionism and then blames the victim for it?
    — Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
  • There will be no more inching ever-eastward for NATO—the sort of reckless expansionism that helped sparked this conflict in the first place.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Poland began the largest overhaul of its navy since the Cold War to bolster defenses in the face of Russian expansionism and transatlantic tensions.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Later that year, Russia went to war with Georgia, a development that would mark the beginning of a new phase of Russian expansionism.
    — David Faris, The Week, 3 Mar. 2022
  • There’s a giddy embrace of chaos that used to define the downtown scene but has mostly been absent lately, zapped by self-conscious appraisals of taste and smoothed over by the uniform gloss of social media and expansionism.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • If necessary, governments in Asia must be willing to take sides, and even to sacrifice blood and treasure to protect themselves from Chinese expansionism.
    — John Lee, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Manila’s Teodoro struck the most combative tone, saying that China expansionism continues unabated.
    — Lim Hui Jie,joanna Ossinger, CNBC, 31 May 2026
  • The most uncertain zone of Israeli expansionism is in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967.
    — Mick Krever, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
  • At the moment Poland is the main bulwark against this resurgent expansionism, which will become more apparent as Belarus descends into the status of Russian puppet state.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The country is litigating how to keep kids safe and what to teach them, weary over orders to wear masks, bruised over an ignominious end to one war, in Afghanistan, and suddenly plenty worried about Russian expansionism.
    — Calvin Woodward and Zeke Miller, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Canberra awarded a huge contract to a Japanese firm to build advanced warships for Australia’s navy, deepening military ties between two nations increasingly wary of Chinese expansionism.
    — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Over the years, she has been pressed into service as an avatar of patient humility or assertive feminism, of American expansionism or Indigenous rights, of Jeffersonian derring-do or native wisdom.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 1 Aug. 2025

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