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caste

[kast, kahst] / kæst, kɑst /


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After organizing the samples by species and caste, the specimens were transported to KIT for high throughput micro CT imaging.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

He raises his children to pursue their education and to ignore caste.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Themes kick up that you couldn’t have guessed from the first act: provocations about class and caste, continent-spanning capitalism and surveillance states.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

More than 93% marriages in India are "arranged" by families within their own caste and faith and couples who deviate from the tradition are routinely forced to seek protection from police or courts.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

I use the term racial caste in this book the way it is used in common parlance to denote a stigmatized racial group locked into an inferior position by law and custom.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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