civilizational
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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That’s a civilizational re-plumbing on the scale of railroads and electrification combined, compressed into a single decade.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
But Christendom most accurately captures the spirit of the idea: organizing the world along medieval civilizational lines.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026
Yet Mr. Trump’s over-the-top rhetoric about Iran’s civilizational erasure came the same day he engaged in relaxed and jokey conversation with the Artemis astronauts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Americans have always risen to civilizational challenges when we’ve seen them clearly and moved with conviction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025
The separation from the civilizational influences of Asia amounts to absolute isolation.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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