Definition of racial
1 : of, relating to, or based on a race a racial minority
2 : existing or occurring between races racial equality
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Examples of racial in a Sentence
What is your racial identity?
There was racial tension on campus.
Recent Examples of racial from the Web
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While excluding black people, American university scholars were simultaneously teaching their students that black people deserved to be enslaved due to their racial inferiority.
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Hughes’ teams won five state championships: two UIL titles at Dunbar and three titles in the Prairie View Interscholastic League at Terrell during an era of racial segregation.
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The main explanation for the racial gap is that black babies are much more likely than white ones to be born prematurely.
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The three-minute video, which shows Florida State Attorney Aramis Ayala being pulled over by two unidentified officers, went viral on Wednesday, raising questions about #drivingwhileblack and racial profiling.
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Much of the work, by artists on both sides of the 'color divide' bares impressions of history and includes racial violence.
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While tensions have been running high in recent years between police and black people around the country, there was no immediate indication the killing had a racial dimension.
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Snowfall is full of moments like this—scenes and interludes that attempt to put the complex racial and geopolitical dynamics of the 1980s drug trade in context.
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Umpire Angel Hernandez filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against Major League Baseball.
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First Known Use of racial
1854
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RACIAL Defined for English Language Learners
racial
playDefinition of racial for English Language Learners
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: relating to or based on race
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: existing or happening between people of different races
RACIAL Defined for Kids
racial
playDefinition of racial for Students
: of, relating to, or based on race a racial group
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playMedical Definition of racial
: of, relating to, or based on a race
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