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Recent Examples of ethnic
For today’s Salinas students, reading their school’s old yearbooks against the backdrop of this history can help them to explore questions about how the legacy of racial and ethnic removal and detention is echoing in their community and country today.
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Michael A Messner, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
Though the war ended in the 1990s, vestiges remained of the racial and ethnic conflict.
—Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
Neither amateurs nor studio photographers operated in exclusively Chinese ethnic spaces.
—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 17 Apr. 2026
Nearly everything The Pitt revealed about Al-Hashimi has been filtered through Robby’s reaction to it, from her ethnic name to her time with international NGOs to her desire to hire two attendings for the daytime shift.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
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Michael A Messner, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
Though the war ended in the 1990s, vestiges remained of the racial and ethnic conflict.
—Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
Neither amateurs nor studio photographers operated in exclusively Chinese ethnic spaces.
—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 17 Apr. 2026
Nearly everything The Pitt revealed about Al-Hashimi has been filtered through Robby’s reaction to it, from her ethnic name to her time with international NGOs to her desire to hire two attendings for the daytime shift.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethnic
Adjective
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The criticism has veered into the personal, surfacing as ethnic and racial animosity toward Ramaswamy, a child of Indian immigrants.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Apr. 2026
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Her racial ambiguity was perfectly calibrated to an era in which brands were clamoring to amplify their social-media presence by appealing to as many audiences as possible.—
T. M. Brown,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 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 30 Apr. 2026.
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