How to Use racial in a Sentence

racial

adjective
  • There was racial tension on campus.
  • What is your racial identity?
  • The racial wealth gap is the smallest it’s been in 20 years.
    USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The main point of our book was to go deeper than the weeds, to the very roots of racial bias.
    Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Closing the racial wealth gap is at the top of SheaMoisture’s Christmas list this year.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The bill has been heralded as a valuable tool to help close the racial wealth gap.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The name change came as the U.S. reckoned with its history of racial injustice in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Blue chip brands also backed the racial justice protests that followed the killing of George Floyd.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Kueper denied the incident, including the use of the racial slur.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • Why is closing the racial wealth gap of the utmost importance to you?
    Brad Ogbonna, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2022
  • That move came after 18 months of pressure to drop the Redskins, which was seen as a racial slur.
    Dave Skretta, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2023
  • In one of the videos, a man who police say was a victim can be heard shouting racial slurs.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The racial gap has also defied years of attempts by the agency to close it.
    Andy Newman, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Why is The North Face running a racial inclusion course?
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The death rates on the job by race are in stark contrast with the racial breakdown of the American workforce.
    Char Adams, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2024
  • As a result, the country has retained one of the world’s highest racial wealth gaps.
    James D. Long, The Conversation, 30 May 2024
  • Once inside, the officers mocked the victims with racial slurs and shocked them with stun guns.
    CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • When Pujols, who is Black, asked Cook to leave, police said Cook called him a racial slur.
    David Aaro, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2022
  • So, yes, the zoot suit and the pachuco style have roots in substantive racial histories.
    Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The truth, of course, is that in the US, one racial group was the victim of slavery: Africans brought over to be enslaved by White slaveholders.
    Jill Filipovic, CNN, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Hispanics are of any race, so the racial groups and the Hispanic groups do not overlap.
    Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • JPMorgan Chase said the format is part of a $30 billion effort to help close the racial wealth gap.
    Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 7 Dec. 2022
  • There was no racial abuse heard during the match on Friday, but the fans were mocking him before and during the game.
    Guillermo Rai, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The border region had long been fraught with racial and ethnic tensions, that in the past turned deadly.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • Trevor Noah has made similar points on racial bias in the reporting of the Ukrainian victims of the war.
    Marcus Ryder, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Not to mention that Latinos are 1.7x more likely to start a business than any other racial group in the U.S.
    Sean Salas, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • To his knowledge, none of them reported the use of a racial slur to a supervisor.
    Tara Bannow Reprints, STAT, 11 June 2024
  • Men did not see the same advantage, and the effect was not uniform across racial or ethnic groups.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
  • Buck was verbally attacked with racial slurs, the lawsuit stated, and felt threatened and in immediate danger for his safety.
    Craig Shoup, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In 2025, companies that once made public commitments to racial justice are staying quiet—or backpedaling.
    Katica Roy, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2025

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