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: of or relating to a hypothetical ethnic type illustrated by or descended from early speakers of Indo-European languages
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: nordic
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—used in Nazism to designate a supposed master race of non-Jewish Caucasians usually having Nordic features
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: of or relating to Indo-Iranian or its speakers
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Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
And the Nazis reinvented Jesus as a muscular Aryan hero who fought Jews.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
An insanely brutal end for a local pawn shop owner who didn’t do anything except sell Manny a firearm and call the Aryan bikers a trio of dumbasses to their faces.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
At the time of the indictment, the Aryan Warriors were described as an organized para-military group with operatives in both the prison system and the Las Vegas community.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
Most scholars believe Aryan migrants from Central Asia brought Indo-European languages to India.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
Eugenicist pseudo-scientific race theories postulated that non-white/Nordic/Aryan immigrants were a threat to the gene pool and therefore the future.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Jan. 2025
The Organizing Committee and the IOC were focusing on helping erase the memory of the last time the Olympics were in Munich in 1936, when Adolph Hitler used them to promote his Aryan race.
—Sean McManus, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
Though Aryan Khan himself grew up surrounded by the film industry, the series logline largely reflects his father’s experience of moving to Mumbai at a young age and breaking into cinema with no industry connections.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
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Sure, the Malfoys are in effect more or less pureblood Aryan stand-ins, but this is also a series that had almost no minority characters at all and none in major roles.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
And the Nazis reinvented Jesus as a muscular Aryan hero who fought Jews.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
An insanely brutal end for a local pawn shop owner who didn’t do anything except sell Manny a firearm and call the Aryan bikers a trio of dumbasses to their faces.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
At the time of the indictment, the Aryan Warriors were described as an organized para-military group with operatives in both the prison system and the Las Vegas community.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
Most scholars believe Aryan migrants from Central Asia brought Indo-European languages to India.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
Eugenicist pseudo-scientific race theories postulated that non-white/Nordic/Aryan immigrants were a threat to the gene pool and therefore the future.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Jan. 2025
The Organizing Committee and the IOC were focusing on helping erase the memory of the last time the Olympics were in Munich in 1936, when Adolph Hitler used them to promote his Aryan race.
—Sean McManus, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
Though Aryan Khan himself grew up surrounded by the film industry, the series logline largely reflects his father’s experience of moving to Mumbai at a young age and breaking into cinema with no industry connections.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Aryan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Aryan. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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