How to Use expansionism in a Sentence

expansionism

noun
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  • True, expansionism has won just about every time, but there is still room to fight.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The Quad is a strategic group seen as a bulwark against Chinese expansionism.
    — William Mauldin, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Donald Trump, too, has picked up this theme of American expansionism, and pushed it even further.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The same set of policies could be applied across Central Asia to counter both Chinese expansionism and Russian malice.
    — Tuvshinzaya Gantulga, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Nor did the candidates attempt to justify Vladimir Putin’s war of expansionism and conquest in Ukraine.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine is a sign of the imperial expansionism that has defined the Russian state for so much of its history.
    — Orlando Figes, Time, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Such news might once have fueled talk about Chinese expansionism.
    — Andrew Peaple, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
  • Again, any chance of seeking common ground in checking Chinese expansionism was lost.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Later that year, Russia went to war with Georgia, a development that would mark the beginning of a new phase of Russian expansionism.
    — David Faris, The Week, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Erdogan laid out his blueprint for Turkish expansionism in crystal clear terms back in 2016.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 8 June 2022
  • Iranian aggression against unarmed ships could be a test for further demonstrations of power and expansionism on the part of Tehran.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Israel, too, has been worried about Iran’s expansionism in Syria, through Hezbollah.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2017
  • The nineteen-seventies happened, and, with them, both the end of American domestic expansionism and a new weariness with modernism.
    — Alexandra Lange, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a giddy embrace of chaos that used to define the downtown scene but has mostly been absent lately, zapped by self-conscious appraisals of taste and smoothed over by the uniform gloss of social media and expansionism.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • And this is coupled with a deeply American fear that our consumerism can be used against us should the people who make our products overseas finally get fed up with sweat-shop labor in the service of U.S. expansionism.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2019
  • Biden reiterated his plan to convene a summit of democracies, where China's expansionism would be a big part of the agenda.
    — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Historical Baltic and Polish fears of Russian expansionism make sense from above.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • At the moment Poland is the main bulwark against this resurgent expansionism, which will become more apparent as Belarus descends into the status of Russian puppet state.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • In the end, drawing attention to Russian expansionism did Romney little good.
    — Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 11 Jan. 2017
  • Still, Russian expansionism is not all about Mr. Putin and his personal ambitions.
    — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • If necessary, governments in Asia must be willing to take sides, and even to sacrifice blood and treasure to protect themselves from Chinese expansionism.
    — John Lee, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The country is litigating how to keep kids safe and what to teach them, weary over orders to wear masks, bruised over an ignominious end to one war, in Afghanistan, and suddenly plenty worried about Russian expansionism.
    — Calvin Woodward and Zeke Miller, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2022
  • To contain the regional danger posed by aggressive Iranian expansionism, as well as to protect its national interests, the U.S. should adopt a four-pronged approach to Iraq.
    — Zalmay Khalilzad, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
  • And as tensions rise with China and with months of economic gloom ahead, officials in Washington see an opportunity to score a win over Beijing’s expansionism.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 5 May 2020
  • Blue Homeland has energized Turks who feel the country has been unjustly denied its rightful claims to the sea, given its long coastline, and has confirmed for adversaries fears of resurgent Turkish expansionism.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Iran’s expansionism has accelerated since the nuclear deal, and its missile tests have increased.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 May 2018
  • The hidden mechanisms of patriarchy and expansionism suddenly came into focus as two facets of the same huge apparatus.
    — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
  • And until recently India has shied away from working with other countries that are equally concerned by China’s expansionism.
    — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Once most Western sanctions are lifted, and American deterrence across the region wanes, Iran’s appetite for expansionism will likely increase.
    — Firas Maksad, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Thus, the logic of Moscow’s intention to press its campaign of territorial expansionism into Europe was laid bare.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024

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