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An ominous undertone, foreshadowing the unchecked slaughter to come, could be heard on October 8, 2023, the day after the Hamas attack on Israel resulted in close to 1,200 deaths.

From Salon

Townsend, an African-American, was also asked if she thought there was a racial undertone to Ostapenko's comments.

From BBC

“The amount of Black people there — we cannot overstate the racial undertones here.”

From Salon

“There’s a certain undertone of ‘good riddance’ when kooks like these are vaporized by the earth’s latest ill-mannered guests.”

The denim campaign, which centers on a pun of “good genes,” has been accused of carrying eugenicist undertones.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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