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one of the segments of society into which people are grouped
a member of the upper caste
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Recent Examples of caste
So if the party was going to succeed, this class had to be destroyed and replaced with a new bureaucratic caste of Communist officials.
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Ian Johnson, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025
The inequality is in many ways the legacy of apartheid, a decades-long racial caste system in which the country’s former white-minority government violently segregated nonwhite South Africans into communities that were left to rot.
—Lee-Ann Olwage, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
But there was always the threat of lynchings and other forms of racial violence for those who defied the racial caste system of Jim Crow.
—Kendra D. Boyd, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
That colonization led the populations of many of our Latin American countries to idolize the European ideal because there was a time when marrying someone with lighter skin to move up in the caste system was the main goal in communities in every damn country.
—Dalina Soto, refinery29.com, 18 Mar. 2025
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Ian Johnson, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025
The inequality is in many ways the legacy of apartheid, a decades-long racial caste system in which the country’s former white-minority government violently segregated nonwhite South Africans into communities that were left to rot.
—Lee-Ann Olwage, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
But there was always the threat of lynchings and other forms of racial violence for those who defied the racial caste system of Jim Crow.
—Kendra D. Boyd, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
That colonization led the populations of many of our Latin American countries to idolize the European ideal because there was a time when marrying someone with lighter skin to move up in the caste system was the main goal in communities in every damn country.
—Dalina Soto, refinery29.com, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caste
Noun
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That means Eternal Spark has some of the largest outdoor space available in its class.—
Julia Zaltzman,
Robb Report,
30 Apr. 2025
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That savings could basically pay for the majority of the draft class.—
Mike Kaye,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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So there’s one level of daunting that’s the subway, right?—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
5 May 2025
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But again that level depends on how many people around you have been vaccinated as well.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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“Caste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caste. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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