as in supremacist
a person who believes that one race is superior to others
a racist facing hate crime charges
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Recent Examples of racist
Following the two 2024 deaths of students, both of whom were Asian, now-graduates Daniel Lin and Deborah Jang penned an op-ed for The Dartmouth criticizing the school’s response to the two tragedies as racist.
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Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 2 May 2025
In his new work, Woods casts the racist, ragdoll-like caricature known as a Golliwog as the connecting overseer of the project.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025
The 2021 study Mapping Discord’s Darkside, published in the journal New Media & Society, shows that despite marketing efforts to distance itself from the far right, Discord hosts thousands of servers associated with neo-Nazi, misogynistic, racist, transphobic and conspiratorial discourse.
—Arthur Coelho Bezerra, The Conversation, 14 May 2025
The bombing of Pearl Harbor by Imperial Japan resulted in a racist, anti-Japanese panic across the country.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
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Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 2 May 2025
In his new work, Woods casts the racist, ragdoll-like caricature known as a Golliwog as the connecting overseer of the project.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025
The 2021 study Mapping Discord’s Darkside, published in the journal New Media & Society, shows that despite marketing efforts to distance itself from the far right, Discord hosts thousands of servers associated with neo-Nazi, misogynistic, racist, transphobic and conspiratorial discourse.
—Arthur Coelho Bezerra, The Conversation, 14 May 2025
The bombing of Pearl Harbor by Imperial Japan resulted in a racist, anti-Japanese panic across the country.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for racist
Noun
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As Jewish Israelis have lurched further to the right, their Palestinian fellow citizens have faced unprecedented levels of persecution and abuse from an Israeli government that includes overt Jewish supremacists.—
Asad Ghanem,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Apr. 2025
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On the debit side, Sarastro is a slaveholder and male supremacist with the kidnapping of an under-age princess to answer for.—
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airmail.news,
7 Dec. 2024
Noun
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People want to get rid of religious parties, people want to put sectarians behind to build an Iraq for all Iraqis.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 May 2015
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Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians.—
Joshua Alston,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2023
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“Racist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racist. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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