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Recent Examples of ethnic
The center provides health care for people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds.
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
Teaching people about the risks and sacrifices made by people during wartime, challenging assumptions about history, and bringing to light the stories that aren't widely known — especially those of Black and Indigenous people, women, and ethnic groups.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 4 May 2026
What was their ethnic experience like?
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
Amid a homebuying slump, a report from the California Association of Realtors found housing affordability improved for all ethnic makeups of buyers except Black households in 2025.
—Amancai Biraben, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
Teaching people about the risks and sacrifices made by people during wartime, challenging assumptions about history, and bringing to light the stories that aren't widely known — especially those of Black and Indigenous people, women, and ethnic groups.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 4 May 2026
What was their ethnic experience like?
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
Amid a homebuying slump, a report from the California Association of Realtors found housing affordability improved for all ethnic makeups of buyers except Black households in 2025.
—Amancai Biraben, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethnic
Adjective
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The American South has a rich and complex history that is layered with difficult social structures and racial tensions, yet also characterized by hospitality, indulgent and flavorful food, and diverse people and places.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
10 May 2026
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The new boundaries carved more than 70,000 minority residents out of Cleaver’s district and used Troost Avenue, Kansas City’s historic racial dividing line, to split up the districts.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
10 May 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 13 May. 2026.
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