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Recent Examples of ethnicity
But the impact of the immigration law remains largely unknown because Alabama prisons don’t collect ethnicity data and therefore don’t know how many inmates are Hispanic.
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Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2025
That’s because one aspect of the DEI rollback was scrubbing race and ethnicity from scholarships and grants students could earn.
—Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025
Patrick Suzuki, an Asian American man with insecurities about his ethnicity, proposes to Kacie McIntosh, a white woman, who says yes — only to get cold feet within hours of seeing him.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
Among the demands are reforms to the way race or ethnicity are used in admission and hiring practices, institutional neutrality, student grading and demanding that transgender women be excluded from women’s locker rooms and sports teams.
—Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 2 Oct. 2025
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Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2025
That’s because one aspect of the DEI rollback was scrubbing race and ethnicity from scholarships and grants students could earn.
—Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025
Patrick Suzuki, an Asian American man with insecurities about his ethnicity, proposes to Kacie McIntosh, a white woman, who says yes — only to get cold feet within hours of seeing him.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
Among the demands are reforms to the way race or ethnicity are used in admission and hiring practices, institutional neutrality, student grading and demanding that transgender women be excluded from women’s locker rooms and sports teams.
—Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethnicity
Noun
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Applicants can also request to be interviewed in their country of nationality.—
Alia Shoaib,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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Silencing individual creative artists based on their nationality does not promote better understanding or advance the cause of peace.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The hope for gold-producing nations like Ghana is to responsibly leverage this bountiful natural resource without falling prey to environmental degradation and civil strife.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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The economics of access to orbit could shift dramatically, allowing smaller nations, private companies, and universities to participate in projects once limited to government agencies.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But some of his comments on gun violence, LGBTQ issues, race and more drew criticism from liberals and others.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
14 Oct. 2025
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In addition to an aerial display from Patan, the event played host to the first four-aircraft formation dance and a high-speed race around the company's signature pylons.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Ethnicity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ethnicity. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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