How to Use ethnicity in a Sentence

ethnicity

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  • The idea was to make the sport available to girls 10-18 of all ethnicities and backgrounds.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Views of the asylum laws do not vary much across lines of race or ethnicity, the poll found.
    — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • At the age of 16, the offspring of mixed marriages had to choose one of their parents’ ethnicities.
    — Robert Hornsby, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Again, he’s hung up on the idea that someone could be more than one race or ethnicity.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The amounts vary by ethnicity, but can account for up to a few percent of the human genome.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Melton aims for roles where ethnicity isn’t the defining trait.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The working group on race and ethnicity standards will share its findings with the OMB in 2024.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Yet, over 800 men and women in the MSP did not report their race or ethnicity.
    — Christina Carrega and Emma Tucker, CNN, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Or take race and ethnicity: Pew found that Black women last year earned just 70% as much as White men.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
  • One is white, one is black, one is of mixed race, and the ethnicity of one is unspecified.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • So far, the study has shown the top 15 genetic risks for Alzheimer’s almost all vary based on race and ethnicity.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024
  • White teens were more likely to use delta-8 and weed than those of any other race or ethnicity.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The problem was, no one had asked Billiot about the ethnicity of any of the four defendants — three Latinos and one Black.
    — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2022
  • The 16% varies by age, race and ethnicity, and household income.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Is this Japanese ethnicity in the room with us right now?
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2023
  • As with so many other things, race, ethnicity, and income play a role here.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 3 May 2024
  • Black: 2% are Black compared to 1% among all other race and ethnicity groups.
    — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • That led to an effort to build databases to look at health outcomes and break them down by race, ethnicity, and language.
    — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The precision of race/ethnicity weights was enhanced in April 2013.
    — ABC News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Volunteers still count them as observed and make a best guess at their age and ethnicity.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Over the years, the parade has come to reflect the face of the city by welcoming people to take part no matter their race, ethnicity, or background.
    — Ella Polak, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The cover shows Donyale with her hand over some of her facial features in what some have assumed to be a bid at hiding her ethnicity.
    — Mikelle Street, Essence, 22 Sep. 2023
  • In the book, Sadie is barred from certain roles because of her gender, others because of race or ethnicity.
    — Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
  • These can be things like ethnicity, region of residence, and so on.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2023
  • And the egregious inequities in our city’s health and well-being extend beyond race and ethnicity.
    — Bill Frist, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • The racial group also has the highest levels of poverty in the state, across all major ethnicities, and are twice as likely to become homeless.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • White people make up almost 69% of the state, and no other race or ethnicity accounts for more than 5% of the state’s population.
    — Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Race, religion, ethnicity—none of this makes a person good or bad.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Furthermore, Gazans would not be leaving because of their ethnicity but due to safety concerns, another aspect of the plan which dispels the accusation.
    — David Friedman, Newsweek, 10 Feb. 2025

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