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Ethnic in a sentence
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Ethnic meaning
- Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.
- Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.
- Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.
Example sentences (20)
Finally they engaged in large scale ethnic cleansing, moving ethnic minorities far away, often with high loss of life.
That’s looking at it the wrong way”, Comment, 14 July) and what it said about the ethnic pay gap and ethnic attainment.
Covid-19 is hitting ethnic minorities harder: People from an ethnic minority are disproportionately affected by covid-19.
Denunciation of tribalism and ethnic exclusiveness is not denunciation of the ethnic communities themselves.
Ethnic groups seeAlso The national Census of India does not recognise racial or ethnic groups within India, Kumar, Jayant.
Ethnic affiliation Except for the fact that he was not considered Roman, Odoacer's ethnic origins are not completely known.
An ethnic nationalist definition of a nation is necessarily exclusive: ethnic nations typically do not have open membership.
Each ethnic group preserves its own culture and many institutions, including political parties, tend to follow ethnic lines.
Ethnic groups main The country's population is highly diverse, containing over 80 different ethnic groups.
A Serb government crackdown on Kosovo’s separatist ethnic Albanians killed some 13,000 people, most of them ethnic Albanians.
The western territory is home to about 12 million Muslims, mostly ethnic Uighurs, as well as about 1.5 million ethnic Kazakhs.
There’s only been one ethnic minority police and crime commissioner and there’s only ever been one ethnic minority chief constable.
More than one million people of religious or ethnic minority groups have been incarcerated, not one million minority ethnic groups.
The two ethnic groups have been locked in a deadly ethnic conflict since last May, which has killed 200 people and displaced thousands.
At the moment, in ethnic areas, only ethnic people can effectively deliver healthcare, he said.
Iran maintains close ties with the Shi’ite Hazaras, Afghanistan’s third-largest ethnic group, and strongmen of other ethnic minorities.
The Kaman minority is one of 135 officially recognized ethnic groups in Myanmar and one of the seven ethnic subgroups in Rakhine State.
There are many decent ethnic turks among us but no decent ethnic turkish politicians among us.
Tahini, being an ethnic food, is expected to witness significant consumption with the growth in demand for ethnic foods, observers FactMR.
Ethnic groups main Senegal has a wide variety of ethnic groups and, as in most West African countries, several languages are widely spoken.
Phrases with ethnic
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Common combinations with ethnic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- ethnic groups 48×
- of ethnic 29×
- the ethnic 25×
- ethnic group 21×
- an ethnic 17×
- and ethnic 15×
- ethnic minorities 12×
- ethnic cleansing 12×
- ethnic armenians 9×
- ethnic and 9×
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