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Recent Examples of ethnic
Despite Cuomo’s appeal to ethnic pride, some residents voiced skepticism, citing his pandemic record and past controversies.
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Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
The region experienced some of its worst ethnic violence in 2023, with hundreds of individuals from non-Arab ethnic groups massacred by the RSF and forces linked to it.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
Racial and ethnic disparities are greatest among children; rates of severe outcomes, such as hospitalization and death, are up to four times higher among racial and ethnic minority children under age 4 compared to white children.
—Liz Szabo, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2025
In 1999, a nearly three-month NATO bombing campaign ended a war between Serbian government forces and ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo.
—Chris Massaro, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
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Daniel Orton, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
The region experienced some of its worst ethnic violence in 2023, with hundreds of individuals from non-Arab ethnic groups massacred by the RSF and forces linked to it.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
Racial and ethnic disparities are greatest among children; rates of severe outcomes, such as hospitalization and death, are up to four times higher among racial and ethnic minority children under age 4 compared to white children.
—Liz Szabo, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2025
In 1999, a nearly three-month NATO bombing campaign ended a war between Serbian government forces and ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo.
—Chris Massaro, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethnic
Adjective
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Elsewhere in the book, Sioux recalls that several of her solos under Miller’s tutelage, even before the show started filming, had racial undertones to them.—
Tanisha Bhat,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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The deployment has also raised concerns about racial profiling, wrongful arrests, and political pressure on law enforcement to align with federal immigration crackdowns.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Genocide is defined as attempting to partly or wholly destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.—
Ellie Cook
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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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.—
Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2022
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“Ethnic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ethnic. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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