How to Use bilateral in a Sentence

bilateral

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • When bilateral relations began to sour in the past few years, members of the Chinese public started to demand the return of giant pandas.
    — Didi Tang, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Our study investigated 21 children and adults—aged six to 36 at the time of the study—who had been born blind because of dense bilateral cataracts and who had gained sight through cataract removal surgery only months or even years later.
    — Cordula Hölig, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
  • But Bosa’s college career ended four games in thanks to what was diagnosed as a bilateral core muscle injury.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
  • My bilateral movements—exercises performed with both sides of the body, like the air squat—were near perfect and symmetrical.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Cox died in December 2019 due to bilateral pulmonary thromboemboli, a condition in which one or more arteries in the lungs become blocked by a blood clot.
    — Rebecca Boone, The Arizona Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The bilateral accord has echoes of Britain’s troubled plans to send migrants to Rwanda in East Africa, an arrangement that has been dogged by legal challenges since it was first announced nearly three years ago.
    — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Even after the bilateral session was announced, Ali stated again that his country’s land boundaries were not up for discussion.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The Pistons were without leading scorer Bojan Bogdanovic, who missed his fourth straight game with bilateral Achilles tendinopathy.
    — Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2023
  • And this will be one of the outcomes of the Vilnius G-7 declaration and our bilateral security arrangements.
    — Lyric li, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Finland’s Foreign Ministry announced last month that the country of 5.6 million has concluded a deal on a new bilateral defense agreement with the United States.
    — Jari Tanner, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Since the start of the Ukraine war, Tehran and Moscow have acted to forge close bilateral ties as both capitals attempt to build new economic and diplomatic partnerships elsewhere.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The neighbors have leverage—Afghanistan imports most of its electricity from Central Asia—but their bilateral outreach to the Taliban on water issues has not worked so far.
    — Graeme Smith, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2023
  • King Charles arrived in France on Wednesday for a three-day state visit designed to revive the two nations’ bilateral connection after the fallout from Brexit.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2023

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