Anglophone

Example Sentences

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In Cameroon, the Pope will visit the capital Yaoundé, the economic hub Douala, and the Anglophone city of Bamenda in the restive Northwest region, where an armed conflict has been raging for nearly 10 years.

From BBC

It’s a political-science truism that the two largest Anglophone democracies — both rooted, at least in principle, in the common law tradition and near-universal voting rights — tend to function as mirror images of each other, however approximately.

From Salon

The song swiftly took over Top 40 radio and topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart weeks later; but most importantly, it helped usher in pop’s Latin explosion, also known as “the Latin boom,” a phenomenon in which Latin pop stars like Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony and Shakira “crossed over,” or found commercial success in the anglophone corner of the music industry.

From Los Angeles Times

Meanwhile, Anglophone dandyism, always stronger on practice than theory, went global.

From The Wall Street Journal

He is largely of English ancestry and was raised in the Anglican Church, and has spent his life in a series of anglophone settler-colonial nations: First South Africa, then Canada, where he emigrated as a teenager to avoid apartheid-era military service, and finally the United States.

From Salon