bigotry
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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
“All In the Family” signposted its main character’s irascible bigotry and generation-gap grievances in the first minute by having its main character sing wistfully of a time when “Guys like me we had it made.”
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026
Miller has denied being animated by racism or bigotry.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026
They aren’t the only victims of bigotry in American history and modern America; Italians and Irish immigrants had their turn, too.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
Nooses, racial slurs, and overt bigotry are widely condemned by people across the political spectrum; they are understood to be remnants of the past, no longer reflective of the prevailing public consensus about race.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing bigotry
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Vocabulary Heard at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
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Friday Night Lights
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