as in nativism
fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners
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Recent Examples of xenophobia
The rise of authoritarianism, xenophobia and nationalism is also fueling young people’s desire to act, as opportunities that were once available to their parents’ generations have nearly disappeared.
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Kara Fox, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
Dismissing these concerns as mere xenophobia is both condescending and factually wrong.
—Letters To The Editor, Oc Register, 14 Sep. 2025
Ishiba may also place more importance on the formal message in light of rising right-wing populism and xenophobia in Japan.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Some felt his comments to police were proof of his alleged xenophobia, emails showed.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Kara Fox, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
Dismissing these concerns as mere xenophobia is both condescending and factually wrong.
—Letters To The Editor, Oc Register, 14 Sep. 2025
Ishiba may also place more importance on the formal message in light of rising right-wing populism and xenophobia in Japan.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Some felt his comments to police were proof of his alleged xenophobia, emails showed.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for xenophobia
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Finally, nativism and protectionism offer voters someone or something to blame.—
BEATRICE MAGISTRO,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Oct. 2025
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To embrace nativism in a global, connected economic world is to sacrifice prosperity for the sake of exclusion, just as the main effect of racial segregation in the American South was to leave the region impoverished and underdeveloped.—
Jamelle Bouie,
Mercury News,
20 Sep. 2025
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Their creative harmony and Charli’s mental wellbeing are threatened when her label brings in toxic concert film director Johannes (Alexander Skarsgård), a role that seems custom fit for the Swedish actor, who takes up all the oxygen in the room with an effortless chauvinism.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
23 Jan. 2026
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Lajo is a victim of crime perpetrated at the nexus of patriarchy and religious chauvinism.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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Al-Akkad reserves his harshest criticism not for the obvious warmongers of American empire, explicit in their jingoism and nationalist fervor, but for the decorous liberal centrists, complacent in their institutional comfort, their birthright virtue too easily claimed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Dec. 2025
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That it’s never made clear who fired the missile — everyone’s a possible enemy, though it’s strongly suggested that the North Koreans are ultimately responsible — invites charges of jingoism or at least of a soft embrace of American exceptionalism.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Xenophobia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/xenophobia. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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