How to Use brinkmanship in a Sentence

brinkmanship

noun

• One big wild card for the Fed is the brinkmanship over the debt ceiling.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• At the very least, the stage looks set for brinkmanship, if not an open trade war.
  — Dominic Gates, The Seattle Times, 12 Feb. 2018
• Their brinkmanship has played out against the backdrop of their re-election bids.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2022
• Guthrie would find this kind of brinkmanship troubling.
  — Mark Allan Jackson, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
• The pause in brinkmanship reflects the quandary now facing Beijing.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, latimes.com, 11 July 2018
• The brinkmanship has to end, and there shouldn't be another crisis.
  — Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2023
• Uncertain Times To be sure, the risks of Trump’s brinkmanship shouldn’t be ignored.
  — Andrew Mayeda, Bloomberg.com, 24 May 2018
• The same is true of McCarthy’s dangerous brinkmanship with funding for the war in Ukraine.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
• That kind of fiscal brinkmanship has persisted in the years since.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
• Trump must be wary; canny brinkmanship defines the Kim clan.
  — Charlie Campbell / Beijing, Time, 9 Mar. 2018
• Disarmament experts warn that this is just one of the risks in a new era of brinkmanship.
  — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
• Their brinkmanship has played out against the backdrop of their reelection bids.
  — Michael C. Bender, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
• The brinkmanship over the plant comes as both sides struggle to make meaningful gains on the battlefield.
  — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2022
• The brinkmanship between Tehran and Washington is getting all the more tense.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2021
• But this act of brinkmanship also increases the chance of the U.K. leaving without a deal at all.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2019
• That Simeone’s team had been able to run City so close was not despite its brinkmanship, but because of it.
  — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2022
• The game of arithmetic brinkmanship every EV owner plays is up.
  — Alistair Charlton, Wired, 24 Feb. 2022
• The threat of sanctions—and how strictly the U.S. plans to apply them—is part of the brinkmanship of negotiations.
  — Sarah Kent, WSJ, 8 May 2018
• The Russian leader has a history of brinkmanship and prior buildups on the border have come to naught.
  — Jennifer Jacobs, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2021
• However new the word, the actual practice of brinkmanship can be traced all the way back to the ancient Greeks, who were masters of it.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2017
• There’s a lot of brinkmanship and things like that, because the Whisperers are so different.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 July 2019
• Ten years later, that ol’ debt ceiling brinkmanship has returned with a vengeance.
  — Patrick Caldwell, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
• As a result, the next round of debt limit brinkmanship could be the most fraught on record — as evidenced by the battle over the speakership.
  — Jim Tankersley, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2023
• As a result, the next round of debt-limit brinkmanship could be the most fraught on record — as evidenced by the battle over the speakership.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2023
• So the world is watching these trade talks between the U.S. and China and there seems to be this brinkmanship game over tariffs underway.
  — CBS News, 13 Aug. 2021
• That number was enough for Mrs. Pelosi to avoid pointless brinkmanship over the past two years and pass an ambitious agenda for Mr. Biden.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• Its removal lightens the mood but there is still a lot of brinkmanship at play with both sides pushing the limits of what a real deadline is.
  — Alberto Nardelli, Bloomberg.com, 8 Dec. 2020
• Over the next six hours, gambles are taken, hands are shaken, and deals are made in a flurry of brinkmanship, shouting, and testosterone.
  — WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023
• Moody’s cited a string of recent red flags, including brinkmanship over the debt limit, the ouster of the House speaker and rising threats of another government shutdown.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Even without firing a nuclear weapon, China could mobilize or brandish its missiles, bombers and submarines to warn other countries against the risks of escalating into brinkmanship.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2024