as in ethnic
of, relating to, or reflecting the traits exhibited by a group of people with a common ancestry and culture
a survey that included an optional question regarding racial identity, age, and other personal information
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Recent Examples of racial
Since its founding in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, LDF has been in the fight for racial justice.
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 30 Apr. 2025
In 2021, she was appointed as one of the 28 members on the Massachusetts Special Commission on Racial Inequities in Maternal Health, which investigates and identifies solutions to reduce or eliminate racial inequalities in maternal mortality and morbidity across Massachusetts.
—Eva Epker, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Activists who championed it argued that Black students were uniquely positioned to fail due to long-standing racial inequalities in Chicago and the result of historic and ongoing discrimination in the United States.
—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2025
But Sophie’s name transforms a banal photograph into a picture that leads us into a world of families and the complicated racial politics of the 19th-century West.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 30 Apr. 2025
In 2021, she was appointed as one of the 28 members on the Massachusetts Special Commission on Racial Inequities in Maternal Health, which investigates and identifies solutions to reduce or eliminate racial inequalities in maternal mortality and morbidity across Massachusetts.
—Eva Epker, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Activists who championed it argued that Black students were uniquely positioned to fail due to long-standing racial inequalities in Chicago and the result of historic and ongoing discrimination in the United States.
—Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2025
But Sophie’s name transforms a banal photograph into a picture that leads us into a world of families and the complicated racial politics of the 19th-century West.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for racial
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The ethnic geography of Gujarat was transformed, with most of its Muslims crowded into slums.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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It was established to remember members of the Tutsi community, an African ethnic group, who were killed or injured in the atrocities.—
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 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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Pippa Small Getty ImagesJeff Spicer/BFC Meghan's support for ethnical clothing labels naturally extends to her jewelry collection.—
Marina Liao,
Marie Claire,
2 Jan. 2019
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“Racial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racial. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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