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
Since the racial justice protests of 2020, however, political posting has existed under sustained suspicion as performative.
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Alessandra Schade, Time, 14 Feb. 2026
That racial trend holds true for the rest of the country, too.
—ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
As the racial makeup of South Dallas began to shift, Rhodes said there was prejudice among some white residents unhappy with the influx of African Americans in the neighborhood.
—Uwa Ede-Osifo, Dallas Morning News, 14 Feb. 2026
David Greenberg, a historian at Rutgers University and a biographer of the civil-rights leader John Lewis, told me that the right could have made a persuasive case against the excessive preoccupation with slavery and racial politics that some on the left have shown.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
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Alessandra Schade, Time, 14 Feb. 2026
That racial trend holds true for the rest of the country, too.
—ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026
As the racial makeup of South Dallas began to shift, Rhodes said there was prejudice among some white residents unhappy with the influx of African Americans in the neighborhood.
—Uwa Ede-Osifo, Dallas Morning News, 14 Feb. 2026
David Greenberg, a historian at Rutgers University and a biographer of the civil-rights leader John Lewis, told me that the right could have made a persuasive case against the excessive preoccupation with slavery and racial politics that some on the left have shown.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
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Ernesto Sagas is a professor of ethnic studies at Colorado State.—
Ediberto Roman,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2026
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Yet Maybank executives note that non-Muslims are interested in Islamic finance, with then-Maybank Islamic CEO Dato’ Muzaffar Hisham telling Fortune in 2024 that more than half of the bank’s Islamic banking customers in Malaysia were ethnic Chinese.—
Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
14 Feb. 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 16 Feb. 2026.
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