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Recent Examples of race-baiting
And as strong a partner as ESPN is for WWE, this type of race-baiting is something other partners don’t provide.
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Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
Moreover, the current mayor has resorted to race-baiting, further dividing the city, and has pursued a socialist agenda to Chicago’s detriment and its taxpayers.
—Juan Rangel, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
She’s already parlayed her race-baiting brand into millions of dollars, including that new mansion of hers in Edgartown, despite having no college degree and a jailbird husband.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
Fox has become a pariah in the entertainment industry because of his anti-immigration rhetoric, race-baiting, and misogyny.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 July 2025
The hosts also talk about the Fanatics Games, a blend of Pros vs. Joes and MrBeast’s YouTube channel; the good (big ratings) and bad (social race-baiting) about the WNBA‘s opening weekend; and the sale of LiveBarn, the youth sports streaming platform whose backers include Susquehanna and Ares.
—Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025
Historians have focused instead on role of Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Cabinet Minister Ian MacKenzie, and race-baiting politicians in British Columbia.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Mar. 2025
And yet for a party and movement built in part on exclusion and a campaign marked at times by race-baiting, there were conspicuous overtures to diversity and inclusion, and sly acknowledgments of the power of the multiracial stew of American pop.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
Moreover, the current mayor has resorted to race-baiting, further dividing the city, and has pursued a socialist agenda to Chicago’s detriment and its taxpayers.
—Juan Rangel, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
She’s already parlayed her race-baiting brand into millions of dollars, including that new mansion of hers in Edgartown, despite having no college degree and a jailbird husband.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
Fox has become a pariah in the entertainment industry because of his anti-immigration rhetoric, race-baiting, and misogyny.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 July 2025
The hosts also talk about the Fanatics Games, a blend of Pros vs. Joes and MrBeast’s YouTube channel; the good (big ratings) and bad (social race-baiting) about the WNBA‘s opening weekend; and the sale of LiveBarn, the youth sports streaming platform whose backers include Susquehanna and Ares.
—Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 22 May 2025
Historians have focused instead on role of Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Cabinet Minister Ian MacKenzie, and race-baiting politicians in British Columbia.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Mar. 2025
And yet for a party and movement built in part on exclusion and a campaign marked at times by race-baiting, there were conspicuous overtures to diversity and inclusion, and sly acknowledgments of the power of the multiracial stew of American pop.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for race-baiting
Noun
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While racism’s roots run deep in America and many factors contribute to it, Florida’s Republican leaders have spent the last eight years helping stoke the fires.—
Mary Ellen Klas,
Twin Cities,
13 Mar. 2026
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Vampires emerge not as mere monsters but as spectral embodiments of racism’s unending drain on Black life in the South, a haunting metaphor for generational trauma.—
Essence,
Essence,
3 Dec. 2025
Noun
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No, either take ownership of your own prejudices or stay silent.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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This is just the first point of contention in a minefield of cultural barriers, letter-of-the-law distinctions, personal prejudices and perhaps some plain mistruth here and there.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
18 May 2026
Noun
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The fact is that Islamophobia is the last form of acceptable bigotry in America.—
Zainab Chaudry,
Baltimore Sun,
22 May 2026
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But there was a very bad deal going on in Detroit in the summer of 1943, systemic bigotry at its worst, and the CP flooded the place with bad dope and real bad cheap rot-gut booze.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Race-baiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/race-baiting. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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