caste

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Recent Examples of caste During the Bengal Famine of 1943, even members of the highest castes were forced to eat snails. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 May 2025 The spirit of caste is malignant and dangerous everywhere. Margie Burns, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025 Suri was relieved by the reaction following its Indian premiere at the Mumbai Film Festival in October but knows general audiences may react differently — especially with the film’s observations regarding the caste system, police corruption and Islamophobia. Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025 These days, things have changed — thanks to landmark civil rights cases like Loving v. Virginia and more mixed-race families from all over the world — but this racial caste system still very much exists. Melanie Curry, Refinery29, 19 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for caste
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Noun
  • Your allies probably have LGBTQ+ coworkers, cousins or that person from their yoga class who has a labret piercing and a rainbow carabiner.
    Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
  • Students initially returned to school online and later resumed in-person classes at a Santa Monica building that formerly housed a Sears.
    Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Their litany of injuries on the pitching side, particularly to the starting rotation, has mushroomed to cartoonish levels.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • Step Back The mission and long-term plan behind AIM is to address the impacts of climate change, specifically by building seawalls that can protect coastal areas from rising ocean levels, Sadilek said.
    Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 10 June 2025

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“Caste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caste. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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