How to Use ethnicity in a Sentence

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• The idea was to make the sport available to girls 10-18 of all ethnicities and backgrounds.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
• Views of the asylum laws do not vary much across lines of race or ethnicity, the poll found.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• At the age of 16, the offspring of mixed marriages had to choose one of their parents’ ethnicities.
  — Robert Hornsby, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• Melton aims for roles where ethnicity isn’t the defining trait.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
• Or take race and ethnicity: Pew found that Black women last year earned just 70% as much as White men.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
• So far, the study has shown the top 15 genetic risks for Alzheimer’s almost all vary based on race and ethnicity.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024
• White teens were more likely to use delta-8 and weed than those of any other race or ethnicity.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
• Black: 2% are Black compared to 1% among all other race and ethnicity groups.
  — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• The precision of race/ethnicity weights was enhanced in April 2013.
  — ABC News, 9 Jan. 2024
• Over the years, the parade has come to reflect the face of the city by welcoming people to take part no matter their race, ethnicity, or background.
  — Ella Polak, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
• The cover shows Donyale with her hand over some of her facial features in what some have assumed to be a bid at hiding her ethnicity.
  — Mikelle Street, Essence, 22 Sep. 2023
• These can be things like ethnicity, region of residence, and so on.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2023
• The racial group also has the highest levels of poverty in the state, across all major ethnicities, and are twice as likely to become homeless.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• White people make up almost 69% of the state, and no other race or ethnicity accounts for more than 5% of the state’s population.
  — Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The more prominent Cermak became, the more friends and foes focused on his ethnicity.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
• The second condition was when the same students were in grades taught by teachers whose race or ethnicity differed.
  — Paul L. Morgan and Eric Hengyu Yu, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• Oberon seemed to have some sense of the pitfalls of her blurry identity from a young age, growing up in poverty and bullied at school for her mixed ethnicity.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• Most of the victims, 64.5% were targeted due to their race, ethnicity or ancestry.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, ajc, 13 Mar. 2023
• Key Takeaways Black women are at greater risk of dying from breast cancer than people of other races and ethnicities.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 27 Apr. 2023
• Arredondo said the most exciting part of Friday’s event was the diversity of the poets — in age, ethnicity and background.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
• The study's findings considered factors such as the infants' mothers' age, race and ethnicity.
  — Seth Bogner, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• Their responses also varied based on their age, ethnicity and place of birth.
  — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 8 May 2023
• The data looks at all owners and renters based on race and ethnicity in both counties, and the percentages reflect the number of homeowners from each race or ethnic pool that own their own home.
  — Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• Although political partisans are divided in their views of the court’s work, the poll results do not show a clear split based on the race or ethnicity of the respondents.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Men like me – older and whiter – must be the first to champion women and diverse ethnicity in our modern world with our votes, at the polls and on boards which pick today’s corporate leaders.
  — Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Gender, age, race, ethnicity, and species didn’t matter.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• In the United States, indigenous women and girls are murdered at 10 times higher rate than all other ethnicities.
  — Maggie Freleng, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2024
• And the people interviewed in this story agree that race or ethnicity shouldn’t dictate who someone could be in a relationship with.
  — Jillian Hernandez, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• America is a funny country, never more so than on issues of race and ethnicity.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Feb. 2023
• Of the 36 companies that delineate new hire demographics by race and ethnicity, just one-third hired more than 50% of people of color.
  — Byruth Umoh, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024