How to Use Tajik in a Sentence

Tajik

noun
  • Attacking both the Taliban and Western enemies Tajik nationals have been involved in many of these attacks.
    Fatema Hosseini, USA TODAY, 2024-04-02
  • Some far-right agitators are lashing out at Central Asian migrants because the four suspects in last Friday’s terror attack were Tajik.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 2024-03-29
  • After the Taliban takeover, Tajik left Afghanistan for Ukraine, where she’s been applying for scholarships or refugee programs in different countries.
    chicagotribune.com, 2021-11-04
  • The authorities had previously told parents to give their children traditional Tajik names, rather than Arabic or foreign-sounding names.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 2024-07-01
  • The targets of these ongoing searches are Afghans who served in the former government or military, especially members of the Hazara and Tajik ethnic minorities.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 2022-03-10
  • Socioeconomic and political factors have combined to make young Tajik men uniquely susceptible to radicalization.
    Marlene Laruelle, Foreign Affairs, 2024-05-14
  • Much of the Afghan-Tajik border is now controlled by the Taliban, which has been collecting revenue from cross-border commerce at their own mobile customs checkpoints on major highways, according to local Afghan security sources.
    Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 2021-07-07
  • The Russian leader has also been photographed speaking with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and others on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2025

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