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Recent Examples of ethnic
The crackdown was ostensibly to ferret out spies, but in many cases the security forces used the war as a pretext to detain ethnic and religious minorities as well as Afghan migrants, according to Amnesty International.
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Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBC news, 24 Sep. 2025
Today, having earned an associate degree from SCC and bachelor’s degrees in English and ethnic studies from San Francisco State, Montoya is currently completing her master’s degree in English at Cal State Long Beach.
—Jenelyn Russo, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
Born to ethnic Albanian parents, Osmani was elected as Kosovo’s sixth president in April 2021.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
Our faith is political, geographic, racial, ethnic divide.
—Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
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Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBC news, 24 Sep. 2025
Today, having earned an associate degree from SCC and bachelor’s degrees in English and ethnic studies from San Francisco State, Montoya is currently completing her master’s degree in English at Cal State Long Beach.
—Jenelyn Russo, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
Born to ethnic Albanian parents, Osmani was elected as Kosovo’s sixth president in April 2021.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
Our faith is political, geographic, racial, ethnic divide.
—Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethnic
Adjective
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Privacy advocates have expressed concern that the company’s cameras and accompanying Neighbors app have heightened the risk of racial profiling and turned residents into informants, with few guardrails around how law enforcement can use the material.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
30 Sep. 2025
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Now, faced with deliberate racial gerrymandering in other states and unchecked executive overreach at home, California must respond with equal determination.—
Trena Turner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Genocide is defined as attempting to partly or wholly destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.—
Ellie Cook
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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The United Nations broadly defines genocide as seriously harming or killing members of a group with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.—
Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2022
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“Ethnic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ethnic. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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