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bigotry

[big-uh-tree] / ˈbɪg ə tri /


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Davis’s public triumphs as a Heisman winner, All-American and the No. 1 pick in the 1962 National Football League draft stand beside Owens’s as proof that talent and character transcend bigotry.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

My hope for this country: I very much hope that culturally we cut out a lot of the bigotry that we have here.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Before Alphy, past seasons featured arcs about its citizens and vicars confronting bigotry.

From Salon Jun. 16, 2026

Within its larger story, the exhibition tells a series of smaller ones, about merchant fortunes gained and lost, religious pride and bigotry, British hubris, American liberty and its limitations—a theme reverberating into the present.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 2026

Of all the ideas that Kennedy had thought up to fight bigotry, this campaign was easily the cleverest.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

As generations of Jews around the world know better than anyone, nationalism often breeds antisemitism and other bigotries.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 10, 2025

Those last two groups are notable because Cohn was himself both Jewish and gay, yet evinced an odd inability to see how the bigotries he cultivated against others like him reflected on himself.

From Salon Oct. 6, 2024

“There is a greater resilience with respect to these kinds of bigotries because of both the destruction of the internet and the the down-sloping direction of civic discourse,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2024

She had an unceasing faith in humankind’s ability to better itself, to shed irrational bigotries, to come together in the pursuit of the greater good.

From Slate Sep. 18, 2020

Sister Saint Luke She lived shut in by flowers and trees  And shade of gentle bigotries.

From Poems by John Hay




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