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Recent Examples of ethnic
Recent history recalls plans to partition Iraq into ethnic substates.
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David Armitage,
Washington Post,
26 June 2026
These are two local, ethnic soccer clubs, players with roots in Belarus scrumming on the home pitch of a Ukrainian club called Tryzub.
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Brian Mann,
NPR,
25 June 2026
The latest bout of internal military struggle, which started in 2023, fracturing along every possible fault line—religious, ethnic, political, tribal, and international—has created what the United Nations is calling the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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Janine Di Giovanni,
Vanity Fair,
25 June 2026
In what would become one of the largest genocides in Europe since World War II, Bosnian Serb forces began an attack on the Bosniak ethnic group in the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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USA Today,
24 June 2026
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David Armitage,
Washington Post,
26 June 2026
These are two local, ethnic soccer clubs, players with roots in Belarus scrumming on the home pitch of a Ukrainian club called Tryzub.
—
Brian Mann,
NPR,
25 June 2026
The latest bout of internal military struggle, which started in 2023, fracturing along every possible fault line—religious, ethnic, political, tribal, and international—has created what the United Nations is calling the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
—
Janine Di Giovanni,
Vanity Fair,
25 June 2026
In what would become one of the largest genocides in Europe since World War II, Bosnian Serb forces began an attack on the Bosniak ethnic group in the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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USA Today,
24 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethnic
Adjective
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Why did the court look at that and say, this is not racial animus?
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In last year’s Season 7, two contestants, Yulissa Escobar and Cierra Ortega, were also caught using racial slurs and had to exit the Villa.
Adjective
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Genocide is defined as attempting to partly or wholly destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
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The United Nations broadly defines genocide as seriously harming or killing members of a group with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
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“Ethnic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ethnic. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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