How to Use unipolar in a Sentence

unipolar

adjective
  • But this does not mean anyone wants to return to a unipolar world.
    — Parag Khanna, Quartz, 16 Dec. 2019
  • For Africans, for black people, a unipolar world is hell on earth.
    — Lauren Markham, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • The end of the unipolar moment was hastened by these wars, and by much else.
    — Michael Krepon, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Despite its strength, the United States does not preside over a unipolar world.
    — Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The countries in Asia have no desire to be dominated in a unipolar world by either China or us.
    — CBS News, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The United States does not exist in a unipolar world, controlling supply chains and economic chokepoints.
    — Don Graves, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2025
  • At the end of the Cold War, China did not appear poised to threaten to America's unipolar moment.
    — chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2017
  • These are areas on the sun that are cooler and less dense regions of open and unipolar magnetic fields, NOAA explains.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 25 June 2025
  • Perhaps a unipolar planet can survive an American global strike arsenal.
    — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2010
  • There’s a big difference between how the United States behaved during the unipolar moment and how it’s behaved in the course of its history.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2022
  • For most of this time, the structure of that order could be described as unipolar, bipolar, or multipolar, depending on how power was distributed among countries.
    — Ian Bremmer, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2025
  • The unipolar world of American leadership that came before, where crises were dealt with, was hardly a model of good governance, calm, and strategic thinking.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The United States entered its unipolar moment and Russia was busy rebuilding after the collapse of its empire.
    — Elizabeth Buchanan, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The unipolar moment of unrivaled American military power is over.
    — Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States was left with unmatched power in what is known as the unipolar moment.
    — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 26 May 2023
  • Today, the United States is no longer a unipolar uber-power and this shift has dramatic implications for those inside, and outside, of our borders.
    — TIME, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Suddenly, America’s unipolar moment had arrived, and the global triumph of liberalism seemed sure to follow.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The post–Cold War unipolar world, dominated by the United States, is becoming a multipolar one.
    — Roger W. Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2025
  • For years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States enjoyed superpower status in a unipolar world.
    — Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The book, published in 1987, came out just before the fall of the Soviet Union and America’s unipolar moment of glory.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Two decades on, the unipolar moment has faded, along with dreams of a better Middle East and American appetite for active international engagement.
    — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Americans have enjoyed the economic, political, and security benefits of being number one in a unipolar world ever since the fall of the Soviet Union.
    — Time, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Scholarship frequently examines how rising powers like China challenge the geopolitics of a unipolar world dominated by the United States.
    — Thomas Gift, Twin Cities, 5 Sep. 2019
  • America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan also contributed significantly to the squandering of its unipolar moment and setting off the decline of the American century.
    — Narges Bajoghli, Time, 19 June 2025
  • When the Cold War ended in 1991, the United States subordinated international institutions to the pursuit of primacy in a unipolar era.
    — Michael Brenes, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Erdoğan first emerged during the post-Cold War decade of unipolar, American triumph, adopting the language of free markets, liberalism, and human rights, and stretched those politics of optimism into the brief euphoria of the Obama years.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping greeted Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Beijing in a major show of unity and defiance against what all three see as a unipolar world illegitimately dominated by the United States.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025

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