How to Use Latinx in a Sentence
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At the time, Latinx art was often siloed from the wider art world.
—Kate Dwyer, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
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Because there is too much Latinx talent and genius that gets squandered.
—John Leguizamo, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2023
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Her success and drive would pave the way for female golfers and for Latinx athletes for generations.
—Halley Bondy, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021
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This charge is being led in large part by bakers riffing and building on traditional Latinx recipes to craft creative pan dulce.
—Emily Wilson, Bon Appétit, 16 Dec. 2024
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The director, Steven Spielberg held an open casting call for Latinx actors.
—Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 16 Sep. 2021
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The large number of Latinx residents of the city are an important part of the community’s culture.
—Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
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African American and Latinx students had much larger declines compared to their White peers.
—Ron Avi Astor, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
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More Black, Latinx, and Asian women have alopecia areata, or bald patches in the scalp and face, compared to white women.
—Akilah Sailers, Essence, 30 Sep. 2024
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When the demographic of an area is predominantly white, Latinx kids are bound to feel different.
—Marie Southard Ospina, Parents, 2 July 2024
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On the other hand, Latinx folks with bilingual parents or grandparents have little control over whether Spanish is passed down to them or not.
—Marisa Tirado, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
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The show was widely produced for years and Solis’ Latinx theatrical world continued to expand.
—Luis G. Rendon, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
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About 70 percent of Black and Latinx workers as well as women, trans, and non-binary people felt the same way, the data show.
—BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
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What’s more, the term Afro-Latino is often used to describe Latinx people with African ancestry.
—Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 17 Sep. 2020
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Typically, Latinx people are presented as white-adjacent, which has led to the erasure of anyone who does not fit that narrow mold.
—Johanna Ferreira, Allure, 18 Sep. 2020
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Mancini has parlayed her pastry chef pedigree into a new ice cream brand that riffs on beloved Latinx flavor profiles with swirls of cajeta, mezcal and chocolate with flan.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
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Roundabout officials said the second year of the Refocus Project would focus on Latinx playwrights.
—Charles Passy, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
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The curators saw the exhibit as a place to underline the sense of community between Latinx creatives in fashion.
—Kerensa Cadenas, ELLE, 1 June 2023
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The national data project also found Black, Asian, and Latinx people killed by police are more likely to be unarmed than white people.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
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To begin with, the Latinx population is now almost twenty per cent of the country, up from five per cent when Blades started his career, in the seventies.
—Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
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Its goal it to expand the presence of Latinx stories and artists on the American stage and spotlight the broad range of today’s Latinx experience.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2023
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Baby Hairs Styling baby hairs, often slicked down in intricate patterns, has deep roots in the Black and Latinx communities.
—Lyric Christian, Essence, 16 Jan. 2025
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One study published in 2018 found that Latinx youth with eating disorders were less likely to use mental health services compared to non-Latinx youth.
—Ashley Andreou, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024
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For far too many youths, especially those from Black and Latinx communities on the South and West sides, opportunities are of reach.
—Tio Hardiman, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
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Rivera, whose father was Puerto Rican, soon became one of Broadway’s most notable triple-threats (actor-singer-dancer), paving the way for Latinx artists to follow.
—Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
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Kinfolk is a hub for connecting the community with art in the 100-year-old home of Sedrick’s grandmother, located in the Black and Latinx neighborhood of Polytechnic.
—Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
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