as in ethnic
of, relating to, or reflecting the traits exhibited by a group of people with a common ancestry and culture
a survey that included an optional question regarding racial identity, age, and other personal information
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Recent Examples of racial
Erik Ortiz Erik Ortiz is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital focusing on racial injustice and social inequality.
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Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026
Treating rap lyrics as diary entries minimizes their artistic value while playing on negative racial stereotypes to influence jurors, experts say.
—Maria Sherman, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
Third, districts must be drawn, where practical, to create racial coalition or influence districts.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Misguided reform wiped away some of the greatest progress that modern educators have made toward racial equality.
—Steven F. Wilson, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
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Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026
Treating rap lyrics as diary entries minimizes their artistic value while playing on negative racial stereotypes to influence jurors, experts say.
—Maria Sherman, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
Third, districts must be drawn, where practical, to create racial coalition or influence districts.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Misguided reform wiped away some of the greatest progress that modern educators have made toward racial equality.
—Steven F. Wilson, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for racial
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The criticism has veered into the personal, surfacing as ethnic and racial animosity toward Ramaswamy, a child of Indian immigrants.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Apr. 2026
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Before joining Daqo New Energy, Zhang was an executive at JinkoSolar, another Chinese firm that has been accused of benefiting from China’s repression of ethnic and religious minorities.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
26 Apr. 2026
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Genocide is defined as attempting to partly or wholly destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.—
Ellie Cook
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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The United Nations broadly defines genocide as seriously harming or killing members of a group with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.—
Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2022
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“Racial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racial. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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