as in supremacist
a person who believes that one race is superior to others
a racist facing hate crime charges
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Recent Examples of racist
The investigation into the racist defacing of the black professors’ portraits at Harvard Law School in 2015 continues into an eleventh year with no resolution and no suspects.
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
Spade's remarks came after Murphy, who previously slammed the joke as racist, reflected on his initial outrage in the Netflix documentary, Being Eddie.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
Until recently, many Americans who harbored racist and other troubling sentiments hid themselves beneath a proverbial rock.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
In 2023, he was permanently banned from Twitch, another livestream platform, for using homophobic slurs and displaying racist and anti-Jewish messages from his live chat.
—Kate Reilly, NBC news, 18 Dec. 2025
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
Spade's remarks came after Murphy, who previously slammed the joke as racist, reflected on his initial outrage in the Netflix documentary, Being Eddie.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
Until recently, many Americans who harbored racist and other troubling sentiments hid themselves beneath a proverbial rock.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
In 2023, he was permanently banned from Twitch, another livestream platform, for using homophobic slurs and displaying racist and anti-Jewish messages from his live chat.
—Kate Reilly, NBC news, 18 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for racist
Noun
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The lyrics went beyond Evers’ white-supremacist killer, indicting an entire system that brainwashed poor white Southerners into hatred.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
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The woman is fearful of her new neighbors: a collection of White supremacists associated with the group Patriot Front.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
15 Dec. 2025
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The Iraqi prime minister at the time, Nuri al-Maliki, was a Shiite sectarian with close ties to Iran, and many of his fellow Shia thought he could be relied on to listen to Iran’s wishes and find a way to avoid clashing with an Iranian proxy militia.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians.—
Joshua Alston,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2023
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“Racist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racist. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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