Haitian
Americanadjective
noun
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a native, citizen, or inhabitant of Haiti
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the creolized French spoken in Haiti
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The Haitian community, some 850,000 people in 2024, largely concentrated in Miami and New York, is also under threat.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
They traveled on Sundays to various churches, both American Christian and Haitian Christian, shifting the sound to cater to different sensibilities.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
People from that same town in Ohio submitted a brief in the Supreme Court case, saying: Please leave our Haitian friends and neighbors alone.
From Slate • May 4, 2026
Viles Dorsainvil, the executive director of Haitian Community Support Center, calls it a lasting trauma that the immigrant population and their children will carry with them beyond this administration.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026
When he was younger, Farmer had traveled to and from Cange in jeans and a T-shirt, until he realized this upset his Haitian friends, who always dressed up to travel.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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