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Adjective
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Lingering anti-immigrant discrimination, which boiled over in 2018 with the arrival of Central American caravans in Tijuana, has also been a concern.—
Alexandra Mendoza,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 July 2025 -
Alongside the cost of living in the U.S. soaring with the Trump administration’s intense tariff policies, Americans are fleeing due to rising anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-Semitic rhetoric and policies.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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Video of the almost outlandishly patriotic show featured a choir, flag spinners, aerial silk performers, and live doves.—
Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
21 July 2025
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Those include gold flourishes throughout the Oval Office, patriotic touches and massive flag poles outside.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
20 July 2025
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Dutch Restrictions While across Europe anti-foreign sentiment keeps rising, limitations on foreign students are perhaps nowhere more striking than in the Netherlands, where a coalition supported by the far right has pushed a policy to restrict foreign students’ access to Dutch universities.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune Europe,
17 Aug. 2024
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The Wall Street Journal reported last August that the company was under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission into whether its imports of monkeys violate anti-foreign bribery laws.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
4 June 2024
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This is the first time a studio has put tickets for sale this early in advance, but considering Nolan has a loyal army of fans large enough to sack a city, there certainly won’t be any shortage of uptake.—
Benny Har-Even,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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Everyone and everything must be personally loyal and accountable to him.—
Jesse Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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“Xenophobic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/xenophobic. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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