as in nativism
fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners
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Recent Examples of xenophobia
Some felt his comments to police were proof of his alleged xenophobia, emails showed.
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Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Vance, who is the daughter of Indian immigrants, has faced online xenophobia while her husband has faced scrutiny for marrying her, the criticism rooted in white supremacist values.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
But poop, nudity, and xenophobia have a knack for inspiring major censorship panic regardless of the maker’s intent.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
Despite entrenched isolationism and populist xenophobia in the United States, Roosevelt understood that the country’s peace and prosperity depended on deeper international engagement.
—James B. Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
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Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Vance, who is the daughter of Indian immigrants, has faced online xenophobia while her husband has faced scrutiny for marrying her, the criticism rooted in white supremacist values.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
But poop, nudity, and xenophobia have a knack for inspiring major censorship panic regardless of the maker’s intent.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
Despite entrenched isolationism and populist xenophobia in the United States, Roosevelt understood that the country’s peace and prosperity depended on deeper international engagement.
—James B. Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for xenophobia
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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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The next while needs to focus on deep reform and not nationalism and nativism.—
Mbongiseni Buthelezi,
Time,
16 Sep. 2025
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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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This moment of intrafamily chauvinism unspools into a broader consideration of the patriarchy at work.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
IndieWire,
19 Aug. 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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The level of jingoism and rallying behind Modi has been very strong.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Xenophobia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/xenophobia. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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