How to Use take sides in a Sentence

take sides

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  • As in the Cold War, some nations will be reluctant to take sides.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The Emirates, along with many other countries, has made clear that it will not be forced to take sides.
    — Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Frankie made people take sides, so her friends had all, like, kinda went away.
    — CBS News, 11 Dec. 2021
  • This absorbing, thoughtful film doesn’t take sides; that’s not James’ way.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The entire team would gather around the combatants to take sides, with the winner swarmed by joyous teammates.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • But 30 years ago, a whole generation of Americans learned how to dig in, hunker down, and take sides with their tribes.
    — Sean Gregory, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The question is: Who among these factions would want to kill Maali, a freelance war photographer who sold his work to the highest bidder but refused to take sides?
    — Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • In an election year, this debate will only ratchet up as politicians take sides, Eberle added.
    — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Those posts, however, don’t risk any confusion over whether the lawmakers are trying to take sides.
    — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • In the meantime, the majority of the world’s countries don’t want to take sides and are refraining from enforcing sanctions against Russia.
    — Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2023
  • People take sides, people shout and bawl, people like or unlike the antagonists.
    — Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • When employee conflicts arise, senior leaders should not make rash judgments or take sides.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Kris Jenner knows better than to take sides between her feuding family.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 15 June 2023
  • Conflict poisons the environment as resentment builds, aggrieved parties vent to their friends, and those friends take sides.
    — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The institute responded by reaffirming that Washington will not take sides in the election.
    — Vic Chiang, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Throughout the six months since Peltz announced his quest for a board seat, corporate executives and investment sages seemed to feel obligated to take sides.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • All are forced to take sides, with the war of words eventually escalating to a shockingly physical confrontation.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2024
  • As with other corporate get-out-the-vote efforts, the ad does not take sides, but its messaging is similar to the efforts by voting rights groups to keep people from being discouraged by long lines or concerns about vote-by-mail.
    — Ryan Teague Beckwith, Bloomberg.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Their daughters Grace and Allegra are implicated in a shocking scandal at their exclusive private school and Juliet and Lorna are forced to take sides, pushing their friendship to the extreme.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • But though the abstention may appear sensible—why take sides in a far-off conflict?—the wider consequences of possible Russian aggression put India at real risk.
    — Wsj Editorial Staff, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
  • While their followers take sides and pit them against each other, their hatred for one another escalates into a real-life fight that ultimately turns deadly.
    — al, 25 June 2022
  • Rather than take sides, Milei should engage both Washington and Beijing to seek further investment in key areas such as lithium extraction, oil and gas production, and infrastructure.
    — Bruno Binetti, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Global South states are becoming more agile in courting relations with great powers and even abandoning their old hesitation to take sides in larger geopolitical contests.
    — Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 25 Dec. 2023
  • TikTok has pushed back on the criticism, saying that its recommendation algorithm doesn’t take sides on issues and that the company is willing to make accommodations for Americans’ privacy, such as by storing data in U.S.-based servers.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Support from local communities and centralized organizations may shift along with changing political winds as American Jews face calls to take sides in Israeli current events.
    — Jamie Levine Daniel, The Conversation, 19 Apr. 2023

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