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caste

noun

ˈkast

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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 Still, there’s no denying that Washington contains the densest concentration of civil servants—and the story of that caste is a morality tale. —

Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026 The people who live in these slums are at the bottom rung of India’s brutal caste and religious hierarchy. —

Saumya Roy, The Dial, 6 Jan. 2026 Peer’s essay framed their story within the wider struggles of India’s migrant workers, highlighting caste, class, and social vulnerabilities revealed during the pandemic. —

Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 21 Nov. 2025 Just as MBAs worldwide have spawned a managerial caste — the foot soldiers of the corporate world — the reckoning schools produced their own commercial caste. —

Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for caste

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But even when attending the opera in person was prohibitively expensive for a poorer and much larger working class, mass audiences still consumed high culture from afar.

— Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026
To these critics, the pitfalls of feminist politics—that jealously guarded privileges of race and class keep women from uniting in the interests of their gender—are neatly symbolized in Stanton’s story.

— Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026