How to Use racial in a Sentence

racial

adjective
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  • There was racial tension on campus.
  • What is your racial identity?
  • The racial wealth gap is the smallest it’s been in 20 years.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The main point of our book was to go deeper than the weeds, to the very roots of racial bias.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Closing the racial wealth gap is at the top of SheaMoisture’s Christmas list this year.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The name change came as the U.S. reckoned with its history of racial injustice in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Kueper denied the incident, including the use of the racial slur.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • Why is The North Face running a racial inclusion course?
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Once inside, the officers mocked the victims with racial slurs and shocked them with stun guns.
    — CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • So, yes, the zoot suit and the pachuco style have roots in substantive racial histories.
    — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The student code of conduct does not specifically list the use of racial slurs or hate speech as an offense.
    — Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Since then, the hate in our country has crescendoed on a racial front, a political front, and now with the war in Gaza from an ethnic front.
    — John Shumway, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The arrests sparked nationwide protests and prompted Starbucks to close some of its stores for a day for racial bias training.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Further, 45% say the fear of racial stereotypes almost stopped them from starting their business.
    — Rohit Arora, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The group says Nasdaq's rules amount to an unlawful racial and gender quota.
    — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The trolley problem — about a racial slur — does not actually use the racial slur in question, as that’s simply a bridge too far.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 8 Dec. 2023
  • So students used their essays to highlight their racial background.
    — Bernard Mokam, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Black and Latina child-care workers deal with racial barriers.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In the last four years, states across the U.S. have rushed to pass sweeping policing reforms, prompted by racial injustice protests and the death of George Floyd and others at the hands of law enforcement.
    — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The vote was split along racial lines, with all Black board members voting against ending any magnet transportation.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Trotter raised concerns about the remarks and the NFL’s record on racial diversity, according to the filing.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Late in the game, it was also reported by our team that several Brooklyn City players used a racial slur freely throughout the night.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But as talk of racial justice has taken a more concrete form in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, more families are seeking the return of what was once their land.
    — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 8 June 2023
  • One of the former foes turned pals' arguments centered around confronting racial stereotypes.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
  • How did the country’s racial politics affect her career?
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Those heinous views include calls to curb Muslim immigration — for which Wilders was once convicted of insulting a racial group — and ban mosques and the Quran.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The Dream for All Program, which launched last year, intended to help address California’s ethnic and racial wealth gap.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Shortly after his son's birth, Wallen came under fire when he was caught on camera using a racial slur while drunk in February 2021.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 20 June 2023
  • In 2019, Smollett went to the police in Chicago, claiming that he was assaulted by two men outside of his apartment who also put a noose around his neck and called him racial slurs.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
  • While not on the scale of the court’s injustices on slavery and racial segregation, the 1972 ruling is widely seen as one of the court’s most enduring legal errors.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023

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