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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
But three days before the election, the former President returned to a state he’s won twice to make an explicit race-baiting appeal to the other gender.
—Eric Cortellessa / Gastonia, TIME, 3 Nov. 2024
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
But three days before the election, the former President returned to a state he’s won twice to make an explicit race-baiting appeal to the other gender.
—Eric Cortellessa / Gastonia, TIME, 3 Nov. 2024
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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That is prejudice dressed in the language of security.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2026
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The goal was to combat racial prejudice by putting white and Black people in a room together for a marathon weekend of unfiltered sharing and confrontation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Appellate Court, however, affirmed his conviction on pleas of guilty of second-degree reckless endangerment, first-degree threatening and third-degree intimidation based on bigotry or bias.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
1 May 2026
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Smaller instances of religious bigotry abounded as well.—
David Mislin,
The Conversation,
27 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Race-baiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/race-baiting. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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