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xenophobia

noun

Definition of xenophobia

as in nativism

fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners

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Recent Examples of xenophobia Torres lamented that the nation’s landmark semiquincentennial comes amid a fever pitch of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, marked by a rise in xenophobia and an onslaught of attempts to restrict newcomers here and abroad. — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026 Removing all possibility that the president’s xenophobia is nonracial, the administration has implemented what is effectively a whites-only refugee policy that accepts solely South Africans of European descent. — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026 But all of them are now under threat — not just in Johannesburg but across the country, from Durban to Cape Town — as South Africa is engulfed by a rising tide of xenophobia. — Kate Bartlett, NPR, 25 June 2026 There can be legitimate debate on immigration, but Trump veers into sinister areas of xenophobia of invading rapists and murderers. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for xenophobia

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Latinos have been not only frequent targets of nativism and xenophobic violence but also supporters — regularly enforcers — of it.

— Eladio Bobadilla, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026
Their ideology feeds off nativism and an opposition to diversity.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 July 2026

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The young Forster recoiled from the school’s culture of authoritarianism and militaristic chauvinism, which may have found expression in the students’ often appalling attitudes toward their own mothers.

— Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
Her stories are well-told, relevant and often searing, detailing an elementary-school teacher’s slight, a hometown swimming-pool reckoning and chauvinism from an Ivy League club.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026

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But aside from that scene, and some odd red, white and blue sparkler-like fireworks visible in the New York Harbor, which curiously distract from a view of the Statue of Liberty, Soarin’ Across America doesn’t lay on the jingoism.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
This was an era of over-the-top displays of patriotism and even jingoism; the phrase Let’s make America great again was in.

— Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026

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