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ethnic

[eth-nik] / ˈɛθ nɪk /
ADJECTIVE
racial, cultural
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For 39 days, local ethnic communities will make themselves known.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Proudly, he informs the class that the protest that Didion derides led to the establishment of the first ethnic studies department in the United States.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

The small Caucasus country is still haunted by Azerbaijan's 2023 military takeover of Karabakh, which ended decades of territorial conflict and prompted the exodus of the enclave's 100,000-strong ethnic Armenian population.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

The main reason is Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave inside Azerbaijan that was home to 100,000 ethnic Armenians until Azerbaijan took it by force in 2023.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Up to this point in musical history - the first few years of the twentieth century - ethnic folk elements had been co-opted into classical music as subsidiary exotic flavouring.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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