1
: of, relating to, or based on a race (see race entry 1 sense 1a)
a racial minority
2
: existing or occurring between races (see race entry 1 sense 1a)
racial equality
Examples of racial in a Sentence
What is your racial identity?
There was racial tension on campus.
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
The photographs at issue showed a group of agents taking the knee during one of the demonstrations following the May 2020 killing of Floyd, a death that led to a national reckoning over policing and racial injustice and sparked widespread anger after millions of people saw video of the arrest.
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The economic and cultural backlash to Israel has sparked comparisons to the pressure placed on South Africa during the era of apartheid racial oppression.
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
The photographs at issue showed a group of agents taking the knee during one of the demonstrations following the May 2020 killing of Floyd, a death that led to a national reckoning over policing and racial injustice and sparked widespread anger after millions of people saw video of the arrest.
—Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2025
The plan uses Kansas City's Troost Avenue as a boundary line, a street that has historically served as a racial dividing line separating predominantly Black and white neighborhoods.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
The economic and cultural backlash to Israel has sparked comparisons to the pressure placed on South Africa during the era of apartheid racial oppression.
—Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
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“Racial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racial. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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racial
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ra·cial
ˈrā-shəl 
: of, relating to, or based on a race
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