How to Use ethnicity in a Sentence

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• The idea was to make the sport available to girls 10-18 of all ethnicities and backgrounds.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
• Views of the asylum laws do not vary much across lines of race or ethnicity, the poll found.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• At the age of 16, the offspring of mixed marriages had to choose one of their parents’ ethnicities.
  — Robert Hornsby, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• Again, he’s hung up on the idea that someone could be more than one race or ethnicity.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
• The amounts vary by ethnicity, but can account for up to a few percent of the human genome.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
• Melton aims for roles where ethnicity isn’t the defining trait.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
• Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 30 Aug. 2022
• The working group on race and ethnicity standards will share its findings with the OMB in 2024.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2023
• Or take race and ethnicity: Pew found that Black women last year earned just 70% as much as White men.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
• So far, the study has shown the top 15 genetic risks for Alzheimer’s almost all vary based on race and ethnicity.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024
• White teens were more likely to use delta-8 and weed than those of any other race or ethnicity.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
• Is this Japanese ethnicity in the room with us right now?
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2023
• As with so many other things, race, ethnicity, and income play a role here.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 3 May 2024
• Black: 2% are Black compared to 1% among all other race and ethnicity groups.
  — Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• The precision of race/ethnicity weights was enhanced in April 2013.
  — ABC News, 9 Jan. 2024
• Over the years, the parade has come to reflect the face of the city by welcoming people to take part no matter their race, ethnicity, or background.
  — Ella Polak, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
• The cover shows Donyale with her hand over some of her facial features in what some have assumed to be a bid at hiding her ethnicity.
  — Mikelle Street, Essence, 22 Sep. 2023
• These can be things like ethnicity, region of residence, and so on.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2023
• The racial group also has the highest levels of poverty in the state, across all major ethnicities, and are twice as likely to become homeless.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• White people make up almost 69% of the state, and no other race or ethnicity accounts for more than 5% of the state’s population.
  — Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The more prominent Cermak became, the more friends and foes focused on his ethnicity.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
• For the first time in decades, the government is changing its categories for race and ethnicity data.
  — Raul A. Reyes, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2024
• But the law known as Proposition 209 bars admissions officers from putting a thumb on the scale for race or ethnicity.
  — Nick Anderson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2022
• The second condition was when the same students were in grades taught by teachers whose race or ethnicity differed.
  — Paul L. Morgan and Eric Hengyu Yu, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• Oberon seemed to have some sense of the pitfalls of her blurry identity from a young age, growing up in poverty and bullied at school for her mixed ethnicity.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• But Kwarteng has played down the significance of his ethnicity.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2022
• When students were kept out of colleges because of their ethnicity.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 1 Dec. 2022
• The new data from the CDC highlights differences in life-expectancy trends by race and ethnicity, as well as by gender.
  — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 31 Aug. 2022
• All of the candidates in those districts are Latino, but no Latino candidates are running in the two districts that don’t have a majority race or ethnicity.
  — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
• For example, some journals already provide checklists for authors on how to report race and ethnicity.
  — Byjocelyn Kaiser, science.org, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024