How to Use bilateral in a Sentence

bilateral

adjective
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  • The pair has not held any formal bilateral meetings since.
    — Ashok Sharma, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Good bilateral ties are essential and need to be advanced given the state of world affairs, Kishida said.
    — Reuters, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
  • India is keen to continue bilateral trade due to its dependency on Russian weapons and the prospect of buying cheaper oil as global prices surge.
    — Shruti Srivastava, Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Japan is now the largest bilateral donor of aid in Asia.
    — Damien Cave Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
  • At the same time, though, there is little appetite for that to be a bilateral process.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • At best these bilateral deals with Ukraine will serve as pledges of support.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 8 July 2024
  • The president will hold a bilateral meeting at 5:30 p.m. at the White House with the new British prime minister.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 10 July 2024
  • The Lakers said Davis has bilateral Achilles tendinopathy and a left hip spasm and James has left ankle peroneal tendinopathy.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • That underscores the irony of the Chinese mantra of win-win in bilateral affairs as, in reality, that means that the Chinese win twice.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 20 June 2023
  • The major difference between the single-leg and bilateral hip thrust setup in in the foot placement.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 10 Feb. 2023
  • There, and in three hours of bilateral meetings with Xi later that day, the Russian leader stressed his close alignment with China.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Then there really isn't much else to talk about in terms of bilateral relations.
    — CBS News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Eight of the events were NATO events, like bilateral meetings with world leaders and working sessions.
    — Megan Lebowitz, NBC News, 16 July 2024
  • That bilateral agreement remains in force, but the United States deferred the outcome of its review when the four-year mark came up in January.
    — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 10 May 2024
  • The resumption of the bilateral summit — which in better times used to be an annual event — was the first sign of an effort to reset relations.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The right toys should push kids to use both sides of their bodies to build bilateral coordination and motor planning.
    — Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 19 Sep. 2022
  • As a deaf person who wears bilateral cochlear implants, the issue of accessibility has been close to her heart for a long time.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The effort aimed to broker bilateral deals between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
    — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The event focused on Ukraine will take place on Thursday, along with bilateral meetings, according to the World Bank official.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2022
  • But if your dog develops a cataract in the right eye three years later, it’s considered a bilateral condition, and the insurer will deny the claim.
    — Kat Tretina, wsj.com, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In light of this, analysts in Pakistan have questioned the wisdom of Mr. Dar’s comments on restoring bilateral trade.
    — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Beyond the fist bump, photos quickly emerged of a bilateral US-Saudi meeting not unlike dozens Biden has conducted in the last 18 months.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2022
  • Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, then traveled to Seoul for a bilateral meeting, the first such visit in 12 years.
    — John Yoon, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • This is because Russia-China bilateral trade has grown more rapidly and is stronger than India’s.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 11 May 2023
  • Neal had a bilateral mastectomy and breast reconstruction, and would move on with her life as a survivor.
    — Lyndsay Levingston, Essence, 18 June 2023
  • Wang said Beijing was also ready to work with Washington, adding that bilateral economic relations were important not just to the two countries, but to the rest of the world.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Some economists caution that the U.S. reduction in trade with China might not be as sharp as bilateral data shows.
    — Simon Romero, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • His mission is taking place as bilateral relations have plummeted over a half-dozen years to their lowest point in decades.
    — David Pierson, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • In the last decade of his life, in addition to the acute mania and blindness from bilateral cataracts, George also possibly suffered from dementia.
    — Town & Country, 8 May 2023
  • Rather than setting a global trade agenda through the World Trade Organization, Washington should focus on bilateral or regional arrangements.
    — Nadia Schadlow, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2024

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