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ethnicity

[eth-nis-i-tee] / ɛθˈnɪs ɪ ti /
NOUN
ethnic background
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“With Bad Bunny’s rise and the Super Bowl, it felt like a shift in values towards the Spanish language,” said Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew Research Center’s director of race and ethnicity research.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

And the suit cites Kavanaugh’s previous effort to walk back “Kavanaugh stops” to tell him: You said immigration stops can’t be based on race or ethnicity.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

Investigators will "explicitly" consider the backgrounds of offenders, including their ethnicity and religion, Mahmood said, and "whether the authorities failed to properly investigate what happened out of a misplaced desire to protect community cohesion".

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Now it plans to cross off the “other demographics” including race, gender identity, ethnicity and sexual orientation, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

But we were kids who had learned to crawl together, and no history, ethnicity, society, or religion was going to change that either.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini



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