How to Use white supremacy in a Sentence
white supremacy
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Now Tynion has set his sights on white supremacy.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
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The lightning bolts are still used as a sign of white supremacy.
—Aria Jones, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
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But even as Dred Scott was overturned, white supremacy was not.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
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This is about white supremacy, and all of the systems that intertwine with that.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2025
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And isn’t freedom from white supremacy worth some level of conflict?
—Time, 3 Dec. 2022
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At the end of the day, the standards are rooted in white supremacy, and the world will applaud your bones.
—Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
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That impact can be seen through laws and policies that sought to maintain the status quo of white supremacy.
—Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
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The left-wing ideology has now become as lethal as white supremacy.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
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To give them a sense of social justice and teach them about the damages of white supremacy and the patriarchy.
—Gerald Witt, AJC.com, 1 Mar. 2026
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The project was born into a world of rising white supremacy and white nationalist rhetoric.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
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Her stand-up mocks the myths of white supremacy and other human hierarchies.
—Jean Guerrero, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
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Many of us have experienced these products of white supremacy firsthand.
—Essence, 11 Oct. 2023
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Leniency for Davis also bolstered the cause of white supremacy.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
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The film very effectively underscores the white supremacy at play.
—Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2023
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What’s more horrifying than the lasting effects of white supremacy?
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 24 July 2023
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There were days when the only thing that kept me going was knowing that each step was one toward progress, a boot to the granite face of white supremacy.
—Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2023
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White listeners and white supremacy are always ripe for a dressing down, but there’s no teeth or edge to his provocations anymore.
—Dylan Green, Pitchfork, 29 May 2026
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Whether that image was meant to be an expression of patriotism or a wink at white supremacy was the subject of some debate.
—Jason Abbruzzese, NBC news, 16 Jan. 2026
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Great Again slogan appears just below the line separating overt and covert white supremacy.
—Cate Charron, IndyStar, 8 Dec. 2025
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Great Again slogan appears just below the line separating overt and covert white supremacy.
—Cate Charron, IndyStar, 18 Nov. 2025
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Great Again slogan appears just below the line separating overt and covert white supremacy.
—Cate Charron, IndyStar, 11 Nov. 2025
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This outrage, which resulted in rule by white supremacy, is called the Wilmington riot.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
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Politicians and hate groups have often weaponized genetics, leading to violent events carried out in the name of white supremacy.
—Shoumita Dasgupta, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
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But like everything else emerging from white supremacy, there is nothing rational about the ideas behind the whitelash.
—Sandy Hudson, refinery29.com, 9 July 2025
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The critique is valid, especially at a time when white supremacy threatens so much of Western culture.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2026
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Armstrong compared today's specter of white supremacy to the mythical Hydra, whose heads, when cut off, grow two more in one’s place.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
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It was appropriated a decade ago as a signal for white supremacy that started as a hoax on the far-right online message board 4chan.
—ABC News, 15 June 2026
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There is no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy.
—NBC News, 4 Dec. 2022
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Emphasizing extremism as an online vibe may also serve to draw nonwhite people to white supremacy.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
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But in a scant 3 years in office, Biden has single-handedly destroyed any illusion of white supremacy.
—Ron Hart, Orange County Register, 1 Sep. 2022
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