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Recent Examples of ethnic
The Southeast Asian nation is embroiled in a civil war with various ethnic groups fighting the military, creating an almost lawless situation in many parts of the country and allowing scam operations to thrive.
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Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
An ethnic German with the looks of an Aryan ideal, Heisenberg had graduated from the University of Munich.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Over the last five years, racial and ethnic representation rose 20% and female representation 18% in companies included in the Russell 3000 index, according to data and analytics firm ISS-Corporate.
—Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
Newman leads breakthroughs in treating triple negative breast cancer, and much of her research is focused on addressing racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer.
—Katie Abel, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
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Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
An ethnic German with the looks of an Aryan ideal, Heisenberg had graduated from the University of Munich.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Over the last five years, racial and ethnic representation rose 20% and female representation 18% in companies included in the Russell 3000 index, according to data and analytics firm ISS-Corporate.
—Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
Newman leads breakthroughs in treating triple negative breast cancer, and much of her research is focused on addressing racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer.
—Katie Abel, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethnic
Adjective
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And an even larger proportion of the same segment of American society, even those willing to contemplate the abolition of slavery, could not imagine a post-emancipation America of racial equality as anything but a nightmare.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Major disaprities in prescription rates run across racial, economic and geographic boundaries, April 2025 research found, even to the point some Americans are cooking their own GLP-1 drugs at home to cut costs.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 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 3 Nov. 2025.
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