How to Use the Near East in a Sentence

the Near East

noun
  • This example, however, hails from the Near East.
    — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Bradley Martin is executive director of the Near East Center for Strategic Studies.
    — Liram Koblentz-Stenzler, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
  • The bureau hired me for national security, to prevent threats from Al Qaeda and other groups throughout the Near East — not to sit in a parking lot arresting immigrants.
    — New York Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • It would have been used by members of the Acheulo-Yabrudian culture, who inhabited the Levant, or the Near East, around 400,000-250,000 years ago.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
  • All royalties will be donated to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The Halafians may have developed this form of mathematical reasoning — based on the progressive doubling of numbers — in response to managing village communities that had existed in the Near East for some 4,000 years and had become economically complex, the researchers said.
    — Jasmin Sykes, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The result was a cornucopia of genetic contamination, including human DNA matching the original collector of the 1978 sample, as well as human DNA that is common in western Eurasia, Europe and the Near East.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood has also been in the news in recent days due to the Israeli government’s move to seize and demolish the site housing a key compound belonging to UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) fired 70 staff members working in Gaza after long-standing claims from Israeli authorities that the agency is a collaborator with the Hamas terrorist group.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026
  • Trump was also behind the International Court of Justice and Médecins Sans Frontières on 8 percent each, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) with 7 percent.
    — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025

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