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Recent Examples of ethnic
There was a lack of ethnic diversity in the study, and participants with a history of serious suicide attempts were excluded, the researchers noted.
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Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 19 Feb. 2026
Jinshan Hakka Restaurant The ethnic makeup of Taiwan is fairly diverse and complex, and the Hakka people make up the country’s largest ethnic minority.
—Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2026
The court and an associated prosecutor’s office were created after a 2011 report by the Council of Europe, a human rights body, following allegations that KLA fighters trafficked human organs taken from prisoners and killed Serbs and fellow ethnic Albanians.
—ABC News, 17 Feb. 2026
The cast represented far more body and ethnic diversity than the white-washed, super-thin standard of 2003.
—Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 17 Feb. 2026
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Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 19 Feb. 2026
Jinshan Hakka Restaurant The ethnic makeup of Taiwan is fairly diverse and complex, and the Hakka people make up the country’s largest ethnic minority.
—Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2026
The court and an associated prosecutor’s office were created after a 2011 report by the Council of Europe, a human rights body, following allegations that KLA fighters trafficked human organs taken from prisoners and killed Serbs and fellow ethnic Albanians.
—ABC News, 17 Feb. 2026
The cast represented far more body and ethnic diversity than the white-washed, super-thin standard of 2003.
—Madeline Hirsch, InStyle, 17 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethnic
Adjective
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Alan Cumming briefly paused Sunday's BAFTA Film Awards on two separate occasions to address the expletives and racial slur that Tourette's syndrome advocate John Davidson yelled during the telecast, according to reports.—
Pamela Avila,
USA Today,
23 Feb. 2026
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Democrats have regularly claimed that identification requirements are challenging to obtain for lower-income Americans, racial minorities, and, in some cases, women.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
23 Feb. 2026
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 28 Feb. 2026.
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