ethnic minority
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Access to Man Maw and information about its operations is highly restricted by the ethnic minority army which controls it in the eastern state of Wa, which borders China.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
On Wednesday, Prentice had called his alleged wrongdoing "an aberration" and vowed a thorough and transparent investigation, while insisting it should not be used "to cast aspersions" on other academics from ethnic minority backgrounds.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Almost one in four of the children lived in London, while around four in 10 were from an ethnic minority background.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 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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