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a person who supports racial segregation
segregationists versus integrationists a segregationist politician/state/attitude/view
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Recent Examples of segregationist
Thurmond, the fervent segregationist senator from South Carolina, spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes — 46 minutes less than Booker.
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Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
The record was previously held by segregationist South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond with his 24 hour and 18 minute filibuster against the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2025
For several years in the nineteen-fifties, the family quietly supported a local paper aligned with the segregationist White Citizens’ Council.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Local residents, university students and segregationists protested James Meredith’s enrollment at the school, which was all-white, according to the University of Georgia.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
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Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
The record was previously held by segregationist South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond with his 24 hour and 18 minute filibuster against the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2025
For several years in the nineteen-fifties, the family quietly supported a local paper aligned with the segregationist White Citizens’ Council.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Local residents, university students and segregationists protested James Meredith’s enrollment at the school, which was all-white, according to the University of Georgia.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for segregationist
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During his first administration, Trump imposed a ban that barred people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S. Critics then and now, have called out the restrictions as xenophobic and racist.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 June 2025
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From time to time, there are zippy montages of Adore clients, filling Lucy’s ears with ridiculous demands and impossibly narrow preferences, some of them cluelessly sexist, ageist, and racist.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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People want to get rid of religious parties, people want to put sectarians behind to build an Iraq for all Iraqis.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 May 2015
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Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians.—
Joshua Alston,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2023
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