Brinkmanship is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Brinkmanship in a sentence
Brinkmanship meaning
The pursuit of an advantage by appearing to be willing to take a matter to the brink (for example, by risking a dangerous policy) rather than to concede a point.
Synonyms of Brinkmanship
Using Brinkmanship
- The main meaning on this page is: The pursuit of an advantage by appearing to be willing to take a matter to the brink (for example, by risking a dangerous policy) rather than to concede a point.
- Useful related words include: foreign policy.
- In the example corpus, brinkmanship often appears in combinations such as: nuclear brinkmanship, the brinkmanship, brinkmanship with.
Context around Brinkmanship
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Brinkmanship
- In this selection, "brinkmanship" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nuclear, political, strategic, continued and remain stand out and add context to how "brinkmanship" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as the brinkmanship continued and brinkmanship is a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "brinkmanship" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with brinkmanship
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The strategic causes of this latest brinkmanship remain shrouded. (9 words)
Should Europe be spooked by Putin’s new nuclear brinkmanship? (10 words)
Sadat had so long engaged in brinkmanship that his frequent war threats were being ignored by the world. (18 words)
On some occasions, the brinkmanship with flying bombs proved lethal for civilians, most notably when 12 Druze teenagers and children were killed in an errant Hezbollah missile strike in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights in August. (36 words)
Fitch's move came two months after Joe Biden and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives reached a debt ceiling agreement that lifted the government's $31.4trillion borrowing restriction, ending months of political brinkmanship. (35 words)
President Trump today said he would be willing to meet without precondition with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, adding yet more confusion to the increasingly risky brinkmanship of recent weeks between the U.S. and Iran. (35 words)
Should Europe be spooked by Putin’s new nuclear brinkmanship? (10 words)
Example sentences (12)
Fitch's move came two months after Joe Biden and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives reached a debt ceiling agreement that lifted the government's $31.4trillion borrowing restriction, ending months of political brinkmanship.
On some occasions, the brinkmanship with flying bombs proved lethal for civilians, most notably when 12 Druze teenagers and children were killed in an errant Hezbollah missile strike in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights in August.
Should Europe be spooked by Putin’s new nuclear brinkmanship?
The second is that he has become arguably the only State Governor in Nigeria who displays sincere brotherliness, strategic brinkmanship and encompassing accommodation across public divides.
His warning came after Boris Johnson told European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen that the EU must 'significantly' shift its stance on fishing, for an agreement, as the brinkmanship continued.
The strategic causes of this latest brinkmanship remain shrouded.
And it evokes a mystery — one involving secret underground naval bases, high-tech submarines and Cold War nuclear brinkmanship.
His nuclear brinkmanship with North Korea seems to involve a belief that nuclear war might just be feasible as a means, short of a blood bath, to bloody Kim Jong-un’s nose.
President Trump today said he would be willing to meet without precondition with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, adding yet more confusion to the increasingly risky brinkmanship of recent weeks between the U.S. and Iran.
The rest of the country, while annoyed, has gotten enough used to this brinkmanship that they won’t hold it against the Democrats in significant amounts.
Brinkmanship is a type of "hard nut" approach to bargaining in which one party pushes the other party to the "brink" or edge of what that party is willing to accommodate.
Sadat had so long engaged in brinkmanship that his frequent war threats were being ignored by the world.
Common combinations with brinkmanship
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: