How to Use internationalism in a Sentence

internationalism

noun
  • Einstein hoped that internationalism, rather, might pave the way for a more just and peaceful world.
    — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2021
  • This year that sense of internationalism must either adapt or risk fading.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 July 2021
  • But for right now, climate internationalism is in a sorry state.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Feminism and internationalism were some of its core themes.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, it's aided by the internationalism that defines modern life.
    — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The voting base of each party is even less drawn to Cold War internationalism than the funding élite is.
    — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 16 May 2021
  • Carmel’s menu is meant to reflect Tel Aviv’s internationalism.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2024
  • Hellbeck makes much of the virtues of Marxist internationalism—perhaps a little too much.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • That historic tension between go-it-alone nationalism and broad-coalition internationalism has played out in stark form in the last week.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Nowhere is this internationalism better reflected than in the city's cuisine.
    — Claire Dederer, ELLE Decor, 27 May 2011
  • This fact must override both left-wing faith in hollow internationalism and right-wing flirtation with isolation and decline.
    — Mitch McConnell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Lodge’s life was defined by his movement from his grandfather’s isolationism to his own brand of internationalism — a big idea, a big issue.
    — Keith C. Burris Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Its products have been drafted into teams that, invariably, play a style and use an approach that is inflected with internationalism.
    — New York Times, 5 July 2021
  • But in recent years the portion of the new class that subscribes to the old liberal internationalism has receded into the background.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Arguably, the project of environmental internationalism has reached the most difficult part of the problems it’s been tasked with.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Propinquity — the space of nearness, neighborliness, and kinship — was central to his localist internationalism and to his idea of the good city.
    — Curbed, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Wendell Willkie is an oddball in the history of internationalism.
    — Dexter Fergie, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Yet there is no doubt that the war has reanimated the zombie of liberal internationalism for the foreseeable future.
    — Samuel Moyn, The New Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
  • His internationalism was one of many qualities that Gordon-Reed admires.
    — Nawal Arjini, The New York Review of Books, 28 Aug. 2021
  • The borders within Europe are more open than ever before, yet proponents of liberal internationalism are on the back foot.
    — Timothy Garton Ash, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • These attitudes were consistent with a high-alarm version of internationalism that focussed on the Soviet threat.
    — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Whether Clinton’s version of liberal internationalism could be sustained in a lasting ground war was never tested.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 27 Sep. 2017
  • But surveys also indicate that support for internationalism is broad, but shallow — while voters on the left and right who want to bring troops home often feel passionately about the subject.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Seven decades of firm internationalism in the Republican Party finally have come to an end.
    — William A. Galston, WSJ, 17 July 2018
  • That internationalism is what has turned European soccer, over the last 30 years, into a global obsession.
    — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The brand’s very name, derived from a Sanskrit word, encapsulates Ghiya’s internationalism.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The Fulbright Paradox Race and the road to a new American internationalism.
    — Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
  • The era of bipartisan liberal internationalism that has remained intact since the onset of the Cold War will finally end.
    — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2022
  • This text of Mark Twain was in line with the internationalism and cross-cultural, cross-pollination that has inspired so many anticolonial causes.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • What unites Zahra’s large and diverse cast of characters is their role in the grand drama of the struggle between those who stood for some kind of internationalism and their more nationalist and nativist opponents.
    — Mark Mazower, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023

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