How to Use nonaligned in a Sentence

nonaligned

adjective
  • What remains of the nonaligned bloc is more nostalgic whimsy than an influential group of nations.
    — Azita Raji, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Countries in the global South today are acutely aware that the revisionist rhetoric of the nonaligned era achieved little.
    — Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 25 Dec. 2023
  • In the sometimes divisive years of second-wave feminism, Atwood reserved the right to remain nonaligned.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
  • But unless that happens, the United States will continue to find a cautious and nonaligned Vietnam.
    — Derek Grossman, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2023
  • But there is precedent suggesting Trump understands the importance of nonaligned countries in the competition with China.
    — Colin H. Kahl, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Donthi said India's tilt toward Russia dates back to the Cold War and persists despite its official nonaligned position.
    — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Donthi said India's tilt toward Russia dates back to the Cold War and persists despite its official nonaligned position.
    — Rajesh Roy, Arkansas Online, 6 Dec. 2025
  • These are hedging strategies adapted to today’s more fragmented international order, while the older divide separated aligned states from nonaligned states.
    — Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
  • Macron, who has contemplated playing the role of peacemaker in the war, has been actively trying to rally the support of nonaligned countries, including India, for Ukraine.
    — Constant Méheut, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • Russia has been able to weather Western sanctions largely by ramping up trade with nonaligned countries, particularly India and China.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • In other systems, media avoid particular partisan entanglements and present themselves to audiences as providers of neutral information to a nonaligned public.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • The broad guidelines for relations between nations emphasize state sovereignty, nonaggression, and noninterference in each other’s internal affairs, and were later adopted by the nonaligned movement.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2024
  • New Delhi’s relative military weakness and long history of acting as a nonaligned nation may also limit its willingness to work with the United States in a military conflict.
    — Damien Cave, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The commission’s principal assignment was to draft a state-of-the-art overview of international communication flows and to examine the desirability and feasibility of instituting a new global order as requested by the nonaligned developing countries.
    — Stijn Joye, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Russian aggression in Ukraine has seemingly given China more weight on the international scene, with Beijing positioning itself as an alternative diplomatic force to Washington, especially to countries that feel nonaligned to the West.
    — Eduardo Gamarra, The Conversation, 17 May 2023

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