How to Use bilateral in a Sentence

bilateral

adjective
  • 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
  • So x means a country's exports to the U.S., m means its imports from the U.S., and x-m is the bilateral trade deficit.
    — Felix Salmon, Axios, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Beijing then swooped in at the last minute to steal the show — and the headlines — with a surprise bilateral accord with the United States.
    — The Editors, National Review, 15 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • No timing has been given for the meeting, which would be the first U.K.-Russia bilateral defense talks since 2013.
    — Jim Heintz and Jill Lawless, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2022
  • No timing has been given for the meeting, which would be the first U.K.-Russia bilateral defense talks since 2013.
    — Jill Lawless and Jari Tanner, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2022
  • No timing has been given for the meeting, which would be the first U.K.-Russia bilateral defense talks since 2013.
    — Jim Heintz, ajc, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The 34-year-old catcher had been sidelined by bilateral calf strains.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 12 Sep. 2021
  • And there is Trump the strategic competitor who felt cheated by China on Covid and the bilateral trade deal.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The pair has not held any formal bilateral meetings since.
    — Ashok Sharma, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
  • There are reports that a bilateral agreement has been worked out between the U.S. and the U.K. to reopen travel between the two countries.
    — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • 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
  • The company in August vowed to take legal action to block the bill under the terms of the longstanding bilateral trade treaty between the U.S. and Poland.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Taiwan is one of the main sources of tension in the bilateral relationship.
    — Taijing Wu, arkansasonline.com, 1 Dec. 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
  • At the same time, these leaders are signing bilateral deals that further exacerbate the gap between the haves and have nots.
    — Time, 12 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Typically, tonic-clonic seizures begin in both sides of the brain, but focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures start on one side of the brain, then spread to both sides.
    — Patti Greco, Health.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Soon after, a planned lunch and a bilateral meeting was canceled and Zelenskyy was seen leaving the White House.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.
    — Marianne Schnall, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • That’s in addition to the bilateral knee tendinitis that has popped up throughout the season.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Good bilateral ties are essential and need to be advanced given the state of world affairs, Kishida said.
    — Reuters, CNN, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The first possibility is that everyone tires of a grinding trade war, sues for peace, and reaches new bilateral agreements.
    — Kevin Williams, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The additional levies, some of which shot north of 45%, were calculated by essentially dividing bilateral goods trade deficits by goods trade exports.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025

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