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ethnic minority

British  

noun

  1. an immigrant or racial group regarded by those claiming to speak for the cultural majority as distinct and unassimilated

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A report, external published on Monday said such issues were most likely to affect women, people from ethnic minority backgrounds and those with a disability.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Anthropic said it also identified a Chinese-government aligned operation that used Claude to track and surveil Uyghurs—an ethnic minority primarily based in Western China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Without support from ethnic minority armies, he predicted loosely organised PDFs would agree to truces or abandon the democratic cause to become "localised warlords" -- or "be wiped out".

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

But the tide has turned back in favour of the military, analysts say, after China threw support behind it and Beijing-backed truces were signed with two of the most powerful ethnic minority armies.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

More than 90 percent of the school’s nine hundred students were black or from an ethnic minority; a fifth of them were the children of immigrants or asylum seekers.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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