as in nativism
fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners
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Recent Examples of xenophobia
The use of this archaic law to once again try to justify mass detentions, xenophobia, and human rights abuses is deplorable and shocking.
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David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
The Trump regime will get $150 billion to supercharge its campaign of militant xenophobia, including enough for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and similar agencies to hire thousands of additional personnel.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2025
Any agreement that fails to deliver tangible and immediate economic gains is likely only to fuel stronger demands for protectionism, trepidation about globalization, and feelings of xenophobia and distrust.
—William Hurst, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2025
Their 7-year-old daughter, Ruth, tries to assimilate into her new life in the Midwest, forgetting most of her Spanish and smoothing the edges of the prejudice and xenophobia around her (including among her father’s family).
—Esmeralda Santiago, New York Times, 21 May 2025
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David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
The Trump regime will get $150 billion to supercharge its campaign of militant xenophobia, including enough for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and similar agencies to hire thousands of additional personnel.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2025
Any agreement that fails to deliver tangible and immediate economic gains is likely only to fuel stronger demands for protectionism, trepidation about globalization, and feelings of xenophobia and distrust.
—William Hurst, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2025
Their 7-year-old daughter, Ruth, tries to assimilate into her new life in the Midwest, forgetting most of her Spanish and smoothing the edges of the prejudice and xenophobia around her (including among her father’s family).
—Esmeralda Santiago, New York Times, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for xenophobia
Noun
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His crackdown continues to draw fire from Democrats and immigrant advocates, who accuse him of stoking nativism and cruelty.—
Amanda Castro
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
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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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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
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The ingredients that have made up Russian political culture during the Putin era—a complex blend of Soviet, post-Soviet, imperial Russian, and modern Russian elements—will have to be replaced by a cruder, more overt Russian jingoism.—
Michael Kimmage,
Foreign Affairs,
27 Sep. 2022
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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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“Xenophobia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/xenophobia. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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