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fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners
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Recent Examples of xenophobia
This us-versus-them sentiment sheds light on nationalism and xenophobia.
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025
On the right, this manifested itself as various forms of xenophobia and a wholesale mistrust of institutional figures; on the left, as much of what came to be called cancel culture and its censorious milieu.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
Among those are $500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda, $750,000 for reducing xenophobia in Venezuela, and $3 million for a children’s developmental television program in Iraq.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
Nature, light, darkness, mundane rituals, violence, ambiguity, and evil, in such forms as death, tribalism, and xenophobia.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025
On the right, this manifested itself as various forms of xenophobia and a wholesale mistrust of institutional figures; on the left, as much of what came to be called cancel culture and its censorious milieu.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
Among those are $500,000 for electric buses in Rwanda, $750,000 for reducing xenophobia in Venezuela, and $3 million for a children’s developmental television program in Iraq.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025
Nature, light, darkness, mundane rituals, violence, ambiguity, and evil, in such forms as death, tribalism, and xenophobia.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for xenophobia
Noun
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Aggressive nativism is a core plank of Trump’s world view, but his approach to foreign affairs is more complicated than this alone.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
13 June 2025
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Yes, America has stumbled at times—anti-Catholic nativism, Mormon expulsions, and recent antisemitic and anti-Muslim acts have exposed gaps between ideal and reality.—
Kevin Sabet,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
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Jews and other immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were disproportionately targeted, highlighting the cultural affinities between anti-radicalism and racial and ethnic chauvinism.—
Rick Baldoz,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2025
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The national community could be knit together without indulging the chauvinism of belligerence.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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India's jingoism and war hysteria should be a source of serious concern for the world.—
Peter Aitken
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 May 2025
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As for the Russian soldiers, their remarks are a mix of jingoism and resignation.—
Ben Kenigsberg,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Xenophobia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/xenophobia. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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