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Recent Examples of subcaste
Let Israel choose the words to describe permanent control over a subcaste of about five million civilians who lack rights and representation.
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Michael Oren,
Foreign Affairs,
31 May 2023
Hybrid work could even effectively create a subcaste of employees for those who choose to continue doing their jobs remotely, career experts warn.
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Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
6 May 2021
India remains a largely conservative society where most people don’t marry outside their subcaste, let alone outside their faith.
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Sadanand Dhume,
WSJ,
25 Nov. 2020
Michael Oren,
Foreign Affairs,
31 May 2023
Hybrid work could even effectively create a subcaste of employees for those who choose to continue doing their jobs remotely, career experts warn.
—
Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
6 May 2021
India remains a largely conservative society where most people don’t marry outside their subcaste, let alone outside their faith.
—
Sadanand Dhume,
WSJ,
25 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subcaste
Noun
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The engineer’s caste was Dalit, considered to be on the lower rungs of society, which allegedly made the engineer a target for harassment and discrimination from higher-caste managers.
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To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and caste and rigid hierarchies, a world where the strong dominated the weak, where power and wealth and status flowed through lineage and the many were ruled by the few.
Noun
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Four men hijack a subway and demand a million-dollar ransom, setting off a chain of events that touches every stratum of city life.
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First, the sample was adjusted for unequal probability of selection by stratum.
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“Subcaste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcaste. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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