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Recent Examples of ethnic
Other nonprofits like Global Witness linked Facebook's past moderation failures to outbreaks of ethnic violence in Ethiopia in 2020.
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Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2026
In the absence of ethnic studies, groups like Radical Monarchs help bridge the lack of racial diversity and cultural competency in schools.
—Kamren Curiel, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
Israel is the Middle East’s only democracy and the region’s only country that protects the rights of women, LGBTQ+ people, and ethnic and religious minorities.
—Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
There are people who said that my mom had bewitched my father, because my mother is from a different ethnic community from my dad.
—Marc Silver, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026
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Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2026
In the absence of ethnic studies, groups like Radical Monarchs help bridge the lack of racial diversity and cultural competency in schools.
—Kamren Curiel, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
Israel is the Middle East’s only democracy and the region’s only country that protects the rights of women, LGBTQ+ people, and ethnic and religious minorities.
—Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
There are people who said that my mom had bewitched my father, because my mother is from a different ethnic community from my dad.
—Marc Silver, NPR, 27 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethnic
Adjective
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Another heart highlighted the lasting impacts from the redlining of Troost Avenue a century ago, which long served as a dividing line of racial segregation in Kansas City.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 Apr. 2026
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In 1969, a Puerto Rican civil rights group, the Young Lords, held weekly street cleanups in East Harlem to highlight the racial and economic inequality that existed in city garbage collection.—
TIM CRAIG THE WASHINGTON POST,
Arkansas Online,
5 Apr. 2026
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 8 Apr. 2026.
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