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a people having a common language, culture, and body of traditions a university with a student body of diverse ethnicities

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Recent Examples of ethnicity But the impact of the immigration law remains largely unknown because Alabama prisons don’t collect ethnicity data and therefore don’t know how many inmates are Hispanic. Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2025 That’s because one aspect of the DEI rollback was scrubbing race and ethnicity from scholarships and grants students could earn. Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025 Patrick Suzuki, an Asian American man with insecurities about his ethnicity, proposes to Kacie McIntosh, a white woman, who says yes — only to get cold feet within hours of seeing him. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025 Among the demands are reforms to the way race or ethnicity are used in admission and hiring practices, institutional neutrality, student grading and demanding that transgender women be excluded from women’s locker rooms and sports teams. Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ethnicity
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Noun
  • Many immigrants eventually settled in the city, whose 664,000 inhabitants represent more than 170 nationalities.
    Blane Bachelor, AFAR Media, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Laws eventually backed the violence Chinese immigrants faced with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 − the first federal law to regulate immigration for a specific nationality.
    Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The hope for gold-producing nations like Ghana is to responsibly leverage this bountiful natural resource without falling prey to environmental degradation and civil strife.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The economics of access to orbit could shift dramatically, allowing smaller nations, private companies, and universities to participate in projects once limited to government agencies.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Delving into the tragic murder of Ajike Owens, a Black Florida woman, at the hands of her white neighbor Susan Lorincz, the new film from prolific documentarian Geeta Gandbhir examines issues of race, class, community, and surveillance.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
  • If your race is in the morning, eat a high-carbohydrate breakfast, such as a bagel or oatmeal.
    Laurel Leicht, Health, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Ethnicity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ethnicity. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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