subcaste

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Recent Examples of subcaste Let Israel choose the words to describe permanent control over a subcaste of about five million civilians who lack rights and representation. Michael Oren, Foreign Affairs, 31 May 2023 Hybrid work could even effectively create a subcaste of employees for those who choose to continue doing their jobs remotely, career experts warn. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 6 May 2021 India remains a largely conservative society where most people don’t marry outside their subcaste, let alone outside their faith. Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subcaste
Noun
  • Mishra sums it up by saying that nobody outside of India gets the concept of caste (without denying that privileged upper caste Indians don’t get it either).
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 22 May 2025
  • Led by the example of captain Aleksander Barkov, there is no caste system evident, no star-system in attitude.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Many activists came to see the old working class and their trade unions as a privileged stratum that demonstrated little sympathy for the plight of immigrants and racial minorities.
    Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Each stratum of plants will be lit with twenty 250-watt T5s suspended about half a meter above the plants, for a total of 300 bulbs per floor.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 June 2013

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“Subcaste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcaste. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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