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Recent Examples of ethnic
Similarly high levels of DEI support were also found among employees from varied racial and ethnic groups.
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Michelle Travis, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Prostate cancer death rates were two times higher for Black men compared to any other racial or ethnic group, according to the report.
—Dr. Raihan El-Naas, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
Men and boys have been targeted and slain on ethnic grounds.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
And without the pacifying force of the Dalai Lama, there will be fewer guardrails to prevent Sino-Tibetan disputes from sliding into intractable ethnic conflict.
—Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
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Michelle Travis, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Prostate cancer death rates were two times higher for Black men compared to any other racial or ethnic group, according to the report.
—Dr. Raihan El-Naas, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
Men and boys have been targeted and slain on ethnic grounds.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
And without the pacifying force of the Dalai Lama, there will be fewer guardrails to prevent Sino-Tibetan disputes from sliding into intractable ethnic conflict.
—Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethnic
Adjective
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Opened in 1946, the diner was the first in the city to hire African Americans in front-of-house roles during a time when racial tensions were heightened, and its inclusive legacy has lived on.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
9 Sep. 2025
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Troost Avenue had long served as a dividing line of racial segregation in Kansas City, a physical reminder of historic redlining from the Jim Crow era.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Defined by the United Nations as acts committed with intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, its use by a sitting member of Congress—particularly a Republican—marks a rare challenge to the dominant U.S. narrative on the war in Gaza.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 July 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 11 Sep. 2025.
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