How to Use racist in a Sentence
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Maybe these are just racist aliens.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2026
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He a white dude from the racist times.
—Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
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This is not about being racist.
—Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
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Speaking out against racist tropes.
—Wanda James, Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2026
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The video was decried by many on the left and right as racist.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
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There’s more to answer for than just racist rhetoric and its reach.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
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As a result, Coe was called racist.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
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But neither of them seem racist or hateful.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026
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They are subjected to racist slurs.
—ArsTechnica, 27 May 2026
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First came the racist abuse against Vinícius Júnior.
—ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
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On that day, the mob hurled racist epithets, smoke bombs, and fists at him.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Feb. 2026
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Yes, Aham may truly believe that monogamy is racist.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2026
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Coe used slurs and racist stereotypes in his songs throughout his career.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
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It has been used some to justify racist attacks.
—Lauren Peller, ABC News, 13 Feb. 2026
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And there is a sharp rise in brazenly racist pronouncements.
—Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
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Early on, the laws and habits of a racist region prompted some of those changes.
—Mariah Franklin, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
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Hambleton might have changed his mind, or some racist lawyer could have stepped up to take the case for free.
—Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
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There was all this ridiculous — and racist — backlash to her casting.
—Marlow Stern, Variety, 26 June 2026
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Democrats denounced the video as racist and juvenile.
—Nik Popli, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
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Holman, at times, had to endure racist jokes and slurs, and got the silent treatment from some.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
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To be racist is to see White people as eternal natives.
—Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
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He was accused of being racist and of calling black people dumb.
—Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 1 Mar. 2026
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Over the years, Boyega has called out both racist fans and Disney.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 23 Mar. 2026
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The focus has been on the racist portion of it, which was widely condemned.
—CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
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Later that day, French posted that someone had said his post is racist.
—Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2025
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Many of the posters pushing the memes are avowedly racist and anti-Semitic.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
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Mansour could, of course, be using nègre in a purely racist sense.
—Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2023
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In the real sense, all of them are recycling racist practices.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
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Some of Coe's work has been criticized for being racist.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
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If in his mind, there was something racist — this is Benfica.
—Tomás Hill López-Menchero, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
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So to call the guy a racist is crazy.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
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Some think our ideas are not just wrong, but racist and evil.
—Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2023
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Jeffries called the video racist.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
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Jeffries called the video racist.
—Daniel Bush, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
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Maybe the anti-racist racists will have to do that this year.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
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Politicians on both sides of the aisle called the video racist.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026
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Friends sent me messages calling me a racist.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
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This type of thinking is hardcore racist and goes back decades.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
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What was done to you was unjust, unfair, racist and wrong.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
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The first thing the Lord told me was to show the world that this man’s not a racist.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
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There are actual racists out there.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
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People who accuse him of being a racist are dumb.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Sep. 2025
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This had been a common belief among nativists and racists.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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The racist Wilson would be proud of Trump in this regard.
—Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 20 Feb. 2026
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Dishari’s lawyer Sean Sullivan said his client is not a racist.
—NBC News, 27 Jan. 2022
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And he has absolutely been falsely called and smeared as a racist.
—ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
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Bob Barker being a racist is not funny.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2026
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And there were people who weren’t racists who said, Look, that is our history.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023
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Bob Barker being a racist is not shocking.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2026
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May the huge majority of fans, who are good people, stand up to shut up all the racists once and for all!
—Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
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Perhaps in this dimension, the racists have taken over.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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Some parents and students are calling the remarks racist.
—Adi Guajardo, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
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Although very funny and true many times, Scott Adams is clearly a racist.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
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Meanwhile, Mixon took to social media and was adamant Gundy is not a racist.
—Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 8 Aug. 2022
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Also a vehement racist who refused to play against teams with black players.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026
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Stephen Lawrence was a black teen-ager who was murdered by a gang of white racists in 1993.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
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Some of them have been caught on camera yelling racist taunts at Black and Asian contestants.
—Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
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In late October, French shared posts that critics called racist.
—Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Nov. 2025
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The play, which Clive Barnes of The Times called racist, closed after a week.
—Anita Gates, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
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The gunman used racial slurs, left behind a racist screed and drew swastikas on his firearm, authorities said.
—Eric Levenson, CNN, 27 Aug. 2023
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