xenophobia

as in nativism
fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners

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Recent Examples of xenophobia 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 Islamophobia, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, weight and body-type bias, ableism, ageism and every other form of discrimination and abuse also deserve the most serious forms of accountability. Shaun Harper, Mercury News, 25 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 See All Example Sentences for xenophobia
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Noun
  • 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
  • The next while needs to focus on deep reform and not nationalism and nativism.
    Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This moment of intrafamily chauvinism unspools into a broader consideration of the patriarchy at work.
    Lovia Gyarkye, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2025
  • My West Coast chauvinism crumbled during a recent tour of New England beer and baseball.
    Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The level of jingoism and rallying behind Modi has been very strong.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The series undermines its own points about the dangers of miscommunication and jingoism by fixating on the same untoward details that tabloids were obsessing over years before.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2025

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“Xenophobia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/xenophobia. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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