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Recent Examples of ethnicity
Lund introduces us to two dozen players of varying ages and ethnicities spread across the two teams, but none of the individual characters are particularly memorable on their own terms.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2025
The national child abuse inquiry report, published in 2022, made 20 recommendations for combatting child abuse, the first being the need to record better data on both victims and abusers, including their ethnicity.
—Nic Robertson, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
The bureau also was implementing a directive from the Biden administration to combine questions about race and ethnicity and add a new Middle Eastern and North African category.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
The camera lingers in close-up on faces of different ages, backgrounds and ethnicities together showing the harmony of cohabitation that different governments, racist traditions and customs tried to end.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 21 Jan. 2025
The national child abuse inquiry report, published in 2022, made 20 recommendations for combatting child abuse, the first being the need to record better data on both victims and abusers, including their ethnicity.
—Nic Robertson, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
The bureau also was implementing a directive from the Biden administration to combine questions about race and ethnicity and add a new Middle Eastern and North African category.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
The camera lingers in close-up on faces of different ages, backgrounds and ethnicities together showing the harmony of cohabitation that different governments, racist traditions and customs tried to end.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethnicity
Noun
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Apply for renewal in their country of nationality or residence.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
20 Feb. 2025
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No such benefit is available to Venezuelans or immigrants of other nationalities, though a Republican congresswoman from Miami has proposed one.—
Patricia Mazzei,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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There are just around 100 HBCUs, but a full 40% of our nation’s Black engineers, 80% of Black judges, and 50% of Black professors at non-HBCUs graduated from an HBCU.—
Aimée Eubanks Davis,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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By comparison, Kiel found European nations have all together allocated around $138 billion to Ukraine.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Anyone who got thrown under the bus in the past year’s race to the bottom.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
27 Feb. 2025
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As a result, prognosticators consider this a tight race.—
Nathaniel Rakich,
ABC News,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Ethnicity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ethnicity. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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