as in racist
a person who believes that one race is superior to others one of the most notorious groups of white supremacists

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Recent Examples of supremacist The joke sparked a furious backlash within Shinde’s Hindu supremacist Shiv Sena political party. Rhea Mogul, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025 Fascists, Stalinists, racial supremacists, and bigots of all times and places typically endorse architectural canons—that one, or any other—for similar discriminatory purposes. Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025 On the debit side, Sarastro is a slaveholder and male supremacist with the kidnapping of an under-age princess to answer for. airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024 The following story might irritate male supremacists and cavemen everywhere. David Whitley, The Tennessean, 30 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for supremacist
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racist
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  • Here, teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Republicans are inadvertently playing into Democrats’ greatest strength with these voters—the sense that Republicans are racists who don’t want them here.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Supremacist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supremacist. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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