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The foxes then take a great leap into the air and dive nose-first, often plunging so deep into the whiteness that only their tail and hind legs stick out.
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Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 27 Dec. 2024
By choosing whiteness, Genevieve set a damaging example for her offspring.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Instead, viewers are immersed in Millie’s Kingston, with dialogue spoken almost entirely in Jamaican patois, where opportunities are limited, gang violence persists and whiteness is still put on a pedestal.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
At the same time, most of the general public accepts country music’s whiteness as fact, instead of artificial manufacture.
—Andrea Williams, The Tennessean, 22 Nov. 2024
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Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 27 Dec. 2024
By choosing whiteness, Genevieve set a damaging example for her offspring.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Instead, viewers are immersed in Millie’s Kingston, with dialogue spoken almost entirely in Jamaican patois, where opportunities are limited, gang violence persists and whiteness is still put on a pedestal.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
At the same time, most of the general public accepts country music’s whiteness as fact, instead of artificial manufacture.
—Andrea Williams, The Tennessean, 22 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for whiteness
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“Whiteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whiteness. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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