neutralism
Americannoun
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the policy or advocacy of maintaining strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
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Biology. the theory that some changes in evolution are governed by random mutations that become fixed in populations by chance rather than by natural selection.
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Globalizing impulses helped bring about a flourishing of neutralism.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2018
My neutralism has its limits: I will doggedly follow the progress of England’s national team in the World Cup, which is now under way in Russia.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2018
For some in the Atlantic Alliance, West Germany's urge to unify eastward raises the specter of neutralism, a concern heightened by the Gorbasms that occurred when the Soviet leader visited Bonn in June.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the extreme form, this thinking rises to a value-deprived neutralism that views all cultures, regardless of the grandeur or paucity of their attainments, as essentially equal.
From Time Magazine Archive
He stood for the evasion of a great issue; for intellectual and moral cowardice, for nauseous neutralism.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper
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