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a people having a common language, culture, and body of traditions a university with a student body of diverse ethnicities

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Recent Examples of ethnicity The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has introduced significant updates to how federal surveys address questions about race and ethnicity, marking the first major revision since 1997, the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan law and policy institute, reported. Emma Marsden, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024 The story of Hispanic men is a two-part story, especially in the areas of education and income, according to Mark Hugo Lopez, director of race and ethnicity research at the Pew Research Center. Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2024 His association’s surveys over the years have found that only about 30% of four-year institutions considered race and ethnicity in admissions decisions. Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024 Only four include information about the participants' race and ethnicity. Ulrich Boser, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ethnicity 
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Noun
  • Italian American Social Club of Central Florida: All nationalities are welcome.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The artist was born in Iran, is French Swedish by nationality, and spends most of his time in Morocco.
    Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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  • Rather, Temple University, situated just a few miles northeast of Penn in our nation’s birthplace, has been the site of a startling set of antisemitic incidents in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attacks against Israel.
    Tal Fortgang, National Review, 21 Dec. 2024
  • While early imperial aristocrats saw provincials as subject nations with their own cultures, their working-class replacements considered Romans a single people and expected all to share the same values.
    Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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  • But the Bucs finish at home against an easier pair of opponents (Panthers, Saints), so this race isn’t over.
    Jeff Howe and Austin Mock, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Board track racing was the beginning of that culture and in terms of motorsport, think of board track racing as the missing link to the original Roman chariot races which pioneered wheeled sport.
    Mike Hanlon, New Atlas, 23 Dec. 2024

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“Ethnicity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ethnicity. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.

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