How to Use nationhood in a Sentence
nationhood
noun- The colonists showed a strong desire for nationhood.
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The nature of its postwar nationhood will change the idea of Europe.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
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Firstly, my people have fought long for our right to nationhood.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2022
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The appeal was to our senses of identity and nationhood, and the threats that exist to undermine them.
—Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
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At home, six months of war have solidified Ukraine’s sense of nationhood.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
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Without a sense of nationhood, Ukrainians wouldn’t have the unity and collective will to resist at such a steep price.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
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Spain had to come to terms with Simon Bolivar and the growing sense of nationhood in Latin America.
—Frank Lavin, Forbes, 7 June 2022
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The result has been an uncomfortable paradox: even as Taiwan has developed a sense of nationhood, much of the rest of the world has pulled away.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
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And yet they have been largely left out of the broad discussion of nationhood that the government’s actions have prompted.
—Patrick Kingsley Moises Saman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
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This could be based either on the idea of nationhood, or at least, on some form of inclusive governance at the local level.
—Benjamin Maiangwa, Quartz Africa, 21 Oct. 2020
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And July 2 isn't even the only date that could lay a claim to being the real beginning of American nationhood.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 17 Sep. 1950
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Serbia considers Kosovo its own, the cradle of its nationhood—much like Putin views Ukraine.
—Andrea Dudik, Bloomberg.com, 25 Jan. 2023
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The war of independence was about nationhood and freedom.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
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With democracy flourishing, and a greater share of the population born on the island, a sense of nationhood had taken hold.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
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All of this is arguably part of an even larger identity war over heritage and nationhood that rages within much of the western world as well as Russia.
—vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
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For a long time, the miracle was explained in terms of misty essences like genius or nationhood, though lately art history seems to have grown more modest in its claims.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
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What is most offensive about the kneeling gesture is not the projection of disrespect for the symbols of nationhood.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 30 Sep. 2017
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Ukraine is struggling for its own nationhood, its own culture, its own identity.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
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Next week’s official celebration of nationhood will be haunted by the protests of citizens who feel scorned by the nation they were born in.
—Robert Zaretsky, WSJ, 8 July 2023
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Voters supposedly want to return to a sense of nationhood as against the overweening EU in Brussels.
—Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 5 July 2018
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That Russian occupation came to an end in 1990, as Latvia took advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union to reclaim its nationhood.
—Simon Nixon, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2017
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After all, free trade between the states has been the sine qua non of American nationhood since the ratification of the Constitution in 1787.
—Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 20 Sep. 2020
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All this is not to deny a common American sense of nationhood which has evolved since the tenuous links of the days of the Articles of Confederation.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2013
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That the contestants struggle to embody nationhood or signal selfless virtue while parading half-naked in heels does not matter.
—Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
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For a few decades after the end of British rule, modernism seemed the best way to project an idea of cosmopolitanism and independence and, for some, a progressive, secular vision of nationhood.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
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To help promote this vision of a more tolerant, modern country driven by a strong sense of nationhood, MBS has unveiled a raft of new initiatives.
—Bernard Haykel, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2024
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Even some who disagree with Mr Puigdemont’s methods believe Catalonia has a case for nationhood.
—The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
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More than just a practicality, Olympic uniforms are totems of nationhood and a country's values in themselves.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 14 June 2021
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Rather, the idea of English nationhood has always been defined in opposition, its origins lying in the country’s estrangement from a French court in 1066.
—Sahil Handa, National Review, 10 June 2019
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The original version, published in the print edition of the magazine, makes no mention of Palestinian nationhood.
—Edward Wong, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
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