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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

Dr Pai argues that if done "thoughtfully" - linking caste data to income and educational indicators - it could shift India from a "caste-based to a rights-based welfare system".

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

Historians will likely wonder how we could describe the new caste system as a system of crime control, when it is difficult to imagine a system better designed to create—rather than prevent—crime.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander