How to Use peoplehood in a Sentence
peoplehood
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Judaism is a peoplehood rooted for thousands of years in the land of Israel.
—Marc Schneier, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
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Still, some powerful feeling of peoplehood, of a commandment being violated, swept over me.
—Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
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Jewish peoplehood, communal autonomy, and distinct national or ethnic consciousness were to dissolve into the universalist framework of the emerging nation-state.
—Kenneth L. Marcus, Boston Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
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Blue-water empires engaged in ghastly policies, but when demands emerged in the colonies for self-determination, Britain or France shed their imperial possessions without reducing or questioning their own senses of peoplehood.
—John Connelly, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025
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The ethnicity legislation has been a priority among many Jewish groups across the Gold Rush state, who believe that Jewish peoplehood should be tied to far more than just religion — and that the law should reflect this unique relationship.
—Sharon Udasin, Sun Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
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