How to Use anti-American in a Sentence
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Bardin said the protests are anti-Israel and anti-American.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024
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Even typing that out feels almost anti-American, anathema to the ethos of hard work and ambition that has propelled so many of the great minds and ideas that have changed the world.
—Jason Schreier, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
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That’s why the anti-American Cannes festival hailed him.
—Armond White, National Review, 18 Oct. 2024
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And all America is blessed, not just the anti-American Leftists that Democrats prefer.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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The result has been both anti-Israeli and anti-American outrage across the Middle East.
—Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2023
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The belief that the blast resulted from an Israeli airstrike led to a massive surge of anti-Israeli and anti-American protests across the Muslim world.
—Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 18 Oct. 2023
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For all of his talk about making America great, Trump has not condemned Orban for his anti-American rhetoric.
—Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 27 Mar. 2024
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Walters is right that ceding ground to one anti-American power will strengthen the others.
—Michael Lucchese, Washington Examiner, 1 June 2023
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Those moves spawned anti-American militias, including groups that Jolani joined.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
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But relatively few people then or now recall how the Canal Zone had become a scene of anti-American agitation and unrest in the 1960s.
—Ron Elving, NPR, 28 Dec. 2024
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The program recalls the 1950s when the government dispatched a group of jazz musicians to perform around the world to counter the anti-American sentiments being broadcast by the Soviet Union.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
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Kelly and Cole’s meet-cute is based in so much defeatist, anti-American cynicism that the love story looks as maladroit as the parallel studio-moon slapstick.
—Armond White, National Review, 17 July 2024
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The Turkish Youth Union is a national youth and student group that has an anti-American and anti-imperialist stance.
—Kerem Inal, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2024
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The Sheik also dialed up his character’s anti-American rhetoric.
—Daniel E. Slotnik, New York Times, 7 June 2023
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In its absence, other anti-American entities and nations will be invited to step in and sway influence against us.
—Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
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That animosity has been at least partially shared by the public in China, where anti-American sentiments are on the rise.
—Ashraf Khalil and Didi Tang, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
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The image of Chaplin the man had become virtually the inverse of the Tramp’s: oversexed, ungenerous, anti-American.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
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What Nikki doesn't support is letting the Chinese and Iranians create anonymous accounts to spread chaos and anti-American filth among our people.
—Nidia Cavazos, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
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For another, the conflict in the Middle East provides Putin a unique opportunity to demonstrate his leadership in the anti-American camp.
—Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2023
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Johnson began by explicating the threat posed by the emerging axis of anti-American great powers, rogue nations, and the stateless terrorists in orbit around them all.
—The Editors, National Review, 10 July 2024
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But Russia will still egg the axis on, encouraging its anti-American designs and working to make its attacks more effective.
—Hamidreza Azizi, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2024
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Sorry, not even the most anti-American soccer lover could chalk up that level o fskunking entirely to ineptitude by the U.S. and brilliance by their opponents.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
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Through the years, the group became increasingly inspired by anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiments coursing through the Middle East.
—Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
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Two Shawnee brothers set up the headquarters for a burgeoning anti-American movement in the unconquered territory along the Wabash River.
—Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
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This critical but unstable region could become far more chaotic and war-prone, with anti-American regimes becoming stronger and more entrenched.
—Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 12 Mar. 2024
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His predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, was far friendlier to China, with a penchant for anti-American rhetoric.
—Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
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There are acts of violence and rioting conducted by anti-American groups like Antifa.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
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But back in Samarra, her fathers’ four brothers were kidnapped by anti-American Sunni insurgents.
—Joao Silva Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
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But the louder rhetoric of the past few years has been far more negative, with accusations of grooming and anti-American indoctrination regularly lobbed at them.
—Peter Greene, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
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South Africa’s ire toward Israel is rooted in its own history of violence and oppression as well as a growing anti-American sentiment.
—Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
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