How to Use non-European in a Sentence

non-European

adjective
  • That paved the way for millions of non-European immigrants to come to the United States.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Some non-European Union citizens will need the correct visa to stay in France.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Scott Morton would oversee the regulation of tech giants and would be the first non-European to hold the job.
    Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 17 July 2023
  • The only non-European country in the top ten was Australia, which ranked seventh.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The rise in numbers was driven by non-European immigrants after the end of the pandemic.
    Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • This is the perfect adapter for multi-country travel or for hotels that may have European sockets in a non-European country.
    Suzie Dundas, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The next shift, Dr. Bolden says, will be ensuring that aesthetic health care providers are aware of and knowledgeable about the aesthetics and beauty standards for non-European ethnicities and races.
    Sierra Leone Starks, Allure, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Without datasets in non-European ancestry populations, other racial demographic groups could be left out of that progress.
    Angus Chen, STAT, 21 May 2024
  • But the concert, organized by an American band manager and Russian musician, was also the first time a Soviet audience was allowed to attend, let alone cheer for, non-European acts.
    Amy Wolff, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
  • The gesture like that by a Black immigrant family in the whitest state in the country is emblematic, Lewiston’s boosters say, of how a struggling postindustrial mill town has been revived in part by a recent influx of non-European immigrants.
    Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Contemporary dismissals of Enlightenment thinkers forget that those thinkers invented the concept of Eurocentrism, and urged their readers to consider the world from non-European perspectives.
    Susan Neiman, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The revision plans could see the residency requirement slashed to five years, or in some cases three, and also enable dual citizenship for non-European Union citizens, which for now is only possible in exceptional cases.
    Kate Brady, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Hollenbach said research is underway to do a similar analysis specifically for people of non-European ancestries.
    Wire Services, Dallas News, 19 July 2023
  • Evergreen and Rosedale were always remarkably ecumenical, permitting burials of people of color and non-European ethnicities — but in separate sections.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024

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