How to Use ethnicity in a Sentence

ethnicity

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• The idea was to make the sport available to girls 10-18 of all ethnicities and backgrounds.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
• Views of the asylum laws do not vary much across lines of race or ethnicity, the poll found.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• Add in the factors of race and ethnicity, and the process can become more volatile.
  — Bill Ruthhart, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• At the age of 16, the offspring of mixed marriages had to choose one of their parents’ ethnicities.
  — Robert Hornsby, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• This study was one of the longest of its kind and covers all 50 states by race and ethnicity.
  — Fablina Sharara, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2021
• Again, he’s hung up on the idea that someone could be more than one race or ethnicity.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
• The amounts vary by ethnicity, but can account for up to a few percent of the human genome.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
• Melton aims for roles where ethnicity isn’t the defining trait.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
• Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 30 Aug. 2022
• The working group on race and ethnicity standards will share its findings with the OMB in 2024.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2023
• Yet, over 800 men and women in the MSP did not report their race or ethnicity.
  — Christina Carrega and Emma Tucker, CNN, 31 Dec. 2021
• Or take race and ethnicity: Pew found that Black women last year earned just 70% as much as White men.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
• One is white, one is black, one is of mixed race, and the ethnicity of one is unspecified.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• So far, the study has shown the top 15 genetic risks for Alzheimer’s almost all vary based on race and ethnicity.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024
• White teens were more likely to use delta-8 and weed than those of any other race or ethnicity.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
• That’s true every time a virus is blamed on a nation or an ethnicity.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2021
• The problem was, no one had asked Billiot about the ethnicity of any of the four defendants — three Latinos and one Black.
  — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2022
• The 16% varies by age, race and ethnicity, and household income.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• Is this Japanese ethnicity in the room with us right now?
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2023
• This type of melanoma affects people of all races, ethnicities and ages.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 16 May 2025
• As with so many other things, race, ethnicity, and income play a role here.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 3 May 2024
• Black: 2% are Black compared to 1% among all other race and ethnicity groups.
  — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• That led to an effort to build databases to look at health outcomes and break them down by race, ethnicity, and language.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 25 Aug. 2022
• The 2020 Census found that English was the most common race or ethnicity.
  — Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, Fox News, 24 Feb. 2025
• The precision of race/ethnicity weights was enhanced in April 2013.
  — ABC News, 9 Jan. 2024
• Volunteers still count them as observed and make a best guess at their age and ethnicity.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2022
• There are lots of questions still to be answered about age, gender, race and ethnicity.
  — Megan L. Ranney, CNN, 25 Sep. 2021
• There are lots and lots of ethnicities and linguistic groups.
  — Literary Hub, 15 May 2025
• About 16% of writers declined to identify their race or ethnicity.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 May 2025
• Soliman is also charged in federal court with a hate crime related to him targeting the group because of their religion or ethnicity.
  — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 3 June 2025