How to Use non-Western in a Sentence

non-Western

adjective
  • Western thought is not wrong, just as non-Western thought is not.
    — Muraly Srinarayanathas, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Here, influences from Cubism and non-Western art abound.
    — Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Care needs to be taken to how these concepts are lived, understood and talked about in non-Western settings.
    — Miki Mori, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Poland, which is overwhelmingly white, has long been averse to non-Western migration.
    — Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The Russian national team are still playing friendlies against non-Western countries.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The Russian national team are still playing friendlies against non-Western countries.
    — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Years of pressure have pushed Belarus further toward non-Western partners.
    — Tatsiana Kulakevich, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
  • For years, however, many non-Western leaders have accused the court of having a pro-Western bias.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The Academy has struggled to recognize non-Western cinema at all in that time.
    — Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Rauch promised to expand its repertoire to include non-Western classics and to diversify both the company and the staff.
    — Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2024
  • But empire has taken many non-Western forms, especially in the Middle East.
    — Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The United States needs to show that its interests are not in opposition to those of non-Western countries.
    — Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • Carbon emissions would increase because there is a dearth of renewables and the world would have to burn dirtier fossil fuels from non-Western entities.
    — Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This stance played well on the world stage, especially among non-Western countries outside the Middle East such as India.
    — Carol E. B. Choksy, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024
  • There were extremely rich philosophical traditions in the non-Western world that your great books classes completely ignore.
    — Big Think, 6 Nov. 2025
  • However, with sanctions and other forms of pressure, Venezuela would not be hedging positions, but being left at the mercy of non-Western actors.
    — Elias Ferrer, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The first decades of the MSC did not include non-Western countries and there has been an effort to include more people from other regions in the last few years.
    — The Dial, 18 Mar. 2025
  • At the time, a counter-discourse was also emerging that sought to challenge the Atlanticist hegemony over the historicization of art from the non-Western world.
    — Simon Njami, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Numerous studies have found that students—even those from non-Western cultures—view scientists as white, male, and wearing a white lab coat, while holding chemistry glassware such as beakers or flasks.
    — Manasee Weerathunga, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Ankara, for its part, will need to recognize that deepening its ties with the non-Western world in ways that antagonize European allies is not sustainable.
    — Mustafa Kutlay, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2025
  • The Transcendentalists were famous, in their time, for their interest in Indian and other forms of non-Western thought.
    — Jeremy David Engels, Fortune Well, 21 June 2023
  • The governments of many major non-Western powers are attempting to take a greater role on the global stage while facing persistent or increasing instability at home.
    — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Czech President Petr Pavel has put together a ‘shell coalition’ that is trying to fund the purchase of nearly a million shells held in non-Western countries.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Krishna is dedicated to expanding the representation of non-Western foods in America.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Krishna is dedicated to expanding the representation of non-Western foods in America.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2025
  • But Russia has continued to find other non-Western markets for exports to get around the cap, particularly in China and India.
    — Jeff Stein and Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The hypnotic motifs and stylized figures in these collections lit a fuse for Nilsson and her peers, seeding a fascination with non-Western art that has continued throughout her career.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • The minister wants to step up German arms deliveries to countries in the Indo-Pacific, and perhaps to other non-Western partners around the globe.
    — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 28 June 2023
  • And while the recognition was previously limited to mostly non-Western countries, this has changed in the past few years, with more European and Caribbean nations taking the step.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
  • If success is to follow, any Western company’s approach to a very different, decidedly non-Western culture has to be highly sensitive to local behaviors and norms.
    — Muraly Srinarayanathas, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025

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