South Asian
Americanadjective
noun
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South Asians
plural
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The emerging group skews younger, is often South Asian or Middle Eastern, and works in fields such as technology and medicine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Through the then-recently established Bradford Heritage Recording Unit, he began photographing the city's South Asian communities at work, at religious gatherings, at weddings and in their social lives.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Most of the students were darkly complected and apparently of South Asian heritage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
That includes higher risk groups such as South Asian and Filipino adults, Shah noted.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
“Certainly,” replies a jittery South Asian man in a long white lab coat.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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