How to Use ethnic minorities in a Sentence

ethnic minorities

plural noun

• Yet those gains are not still small, and only 22% of board seats are taken by members of racial and ethnic minorities.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 16 June 2023
• At the same time, racial and ethnic minorities saw slower income gains in the period through 2021.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• The move is the latest in a series of actions the U.S. has taken against China over its treatment of ethnic minorities.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 23 Aug. 2023
• One in 4 was best served in a language other than English; about 63% were racial or ethnic minorities.
  — Devi Shastri The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 28 Jan. 2024
• Racial and ethnic minorities now hold 20% of all board seats at the nation’s largest public companies for the first time, according to a new study.
  — WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
• Tajiks and Uzbeks are substantial ethnic minorities in Afghanistan.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2024
• This will open more doors for not just Black people, but ethnic minorities that normally get one role in the cast of basically [all] white people.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 July 2024
• But that data revealed that only 14% of them had at least 30% of their directors coming from racial or ethnic minorities.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2023
• Racial and ethnic minorities are routinely treated in this way.
  — Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 5 Dec. 2023
• And the immigration has not stopped -- Filipinos are one of the fastest growing ethnic minorities in Hawaii, according to research from the University of Hawaii.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2023
• The remaining 2% will be set aside for members of ethnic minorities and transgender and disabled people.
  — Julhas Alam, arkansasonline.com, 22 July 2024
• Attacks on gay and transgender people and ethnic minorities have surged.
  — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
• The honor is a weighty one, as there are only 627 venture-capital firms are majority-owned by women and/or ethnic minorities in the United States as of last year.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 12 Dec. 2022
• So, too, is ensuring that all Minnesotans – especially those in racial and ethnic minorities – trust our courts to provide fair and equal access to justice.
  — Natalie Hudson, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
• The singling out of ethnic minorities is intentional, human rights groups say.
  — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• However ridiculous claims of civil war may be, Starmer and his government will have to grapple with claims propagated by the far-right that at the root of many of the U.K.’s problems are migrants and ethnic minorities.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2024
• Against this backdrop, Charles has tried to demonstrate the continuing relevance of the monarchy by reaching out to faith leaders, ethnic minorities and each of the four nations that make up the United Kingdom.
  — Danica Kirka, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2024
• Over the past decade, several sports teams have changed their names and mascots to eliminate racist names and imagery that depict Native American and ethnic minorities with stereotypes.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
• The share of workers with multiple jobs is also higher among Gen Z and ethnic minorities, making up 30% and 28% of the workers with multiple jobs respectively.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 21 June 2023
• The majority of Cambodians are Khmer and ethnic minorities include the Cham people.
  — The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
• Multiple studies have found that ethnic minorities are far less likely to seek and receive treatment for eating disorders.
  — Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
• The inequality is even starker among certain ethnic minorities, with Māori women earning 81 cents to the dollar and Pasifika women earning just 75 cents.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
• Racial and ethnic minorities including Black, Indigenous, Hispanic and other groups of color were found to have less per capita income than non-Hispanic whites.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2024
• If the antibody treatment is not accepted for the Vaccines for Children program, that will limit access to the shot for the uninsured and those on Medicaid, the majority of whom represent racial or ethnic minorities, Moore said.
  — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2023
• In states like Missouri and Wisconsin, Republican state politicians have already set their sights on scholarships for racial and/or ethnic minorities.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• Those actions demolished the previous bounds of acceptable speech, inviting more people to weigh in with wild theories and emotions about religious and ethnic minorities.
  — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• Racial and ethnic minorities also are more likely to die from diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma and heart disease than their white counterparts, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  — Ronnie Cohen | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Instead, Americans in regions with declining maternal health care and racial and ethnic minorities are making up the majority of cases.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
• What Myanmar’s ethnic minorities, particularly non-Buddhist ones, share is a long record of persecution by the military.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
• Beginning in 1984, exemptions in some areas allowed disabled military veterans, ethnic minorities, and families with one daughter to have a second baby, and in subsequent years officials tweaked the policy.
  — Barbara Demick, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024