as in paleness
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Recent Examples of whiteness
People are eager to escape discrimination and reap the benefits of whiteness.
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Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025
But Oberon was no self-hating, assimilationist stooge of whiteness; instead, the social and political conditions of her era forced her to pass.
—Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2025
The whiteness of the cold cream just really spooked me.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
There’s a real fear about the eroding hegemony of whiteness internationally.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
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Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2025
But Oberon was no self-hating, assimilationist stooge of whiteness; instead, the social and political conditions of her era forced her to pass.
—Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2025
The whiteness of the cold cream just really spooked me.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
There’s a real fear about the eroding hegemony of whiteness internationally.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whiteness
Noun
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Over the water the sky is glazed now with an Arctic pallor.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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This at a time when a sluggish box office and a lack of employment in onscreen entertainment has already given the business a sickly Nosferatu-like pallor.—
Ryan Faughnder,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Whiteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whiteness. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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