as in ethnic
of, relating to, or reflecting the traits exhibited by a group of people with a common ancestry and culture
a survey that included an optional question regarding racial identity, age, and other personal information
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Recent Examples of racial
Just last week, a professor who taught at Harvard for 40 years slammed the school for its ideological homogeneity after finishing his last semester, saying that graduate programs were denying White male applicants on racial grounds and that Western civilization courses were being eradicated.
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Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
To be sure, Solidaire Network also supports other progressive organizations focused on racial and gender equality, as well as climate and economic justice causes.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2026
Audio recordings previously obtained by the Observer and other news outlets featured McFadden berating staff, calling them untrustworthy and calling a white captain a racial slur.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 5 Jan. 2026
This was right and necessary in many ways, of course, and Lindsay’s policies (and the broader growth of public-sector unions) helped bring enormous progress to the city’s racial minorities.
—Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
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Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
To be sure, Solidaire Network also supports other progressive organizations focused on racial and gender equality, as well as climate and economic justice causes.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2026
Audio recordings previously obtained by the Observer and other news outlets featured McFadden berating staff, calling them untrustworthy and calling a white captain a racial slur.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 5 Jan. 2026
This was right and necessary in many ways, of course, and Lindsay’s policies (and the broader growth of public-sector unions) helped bring enormous progress to the city’s racial minorities.
—Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for racial
Adjective
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Reports of mass murder and ethnic violence from Darfur.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Nov. 2025
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Much of this strife, including throughout the 1967-1970 civil war and subsequent clashes over the decades, has also been closely tied to feuds across ethnic and territorial lines.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 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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“Racial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racial. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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