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white area

British  

noun

  1. an area of land for which no specific planning proposal has been adopted

"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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In 2021, Nyarai and her family moved from London to Llanelli, and she said was a "daunting experience" leaving a city where she identified with a lot of people to a predominantly white area.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2024

This morning, there is just a little white area where the burn was.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2022

The white people were in California, some in the state capital, Sacramento, and others from a rural and largely white area about 300 miles away.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2020

Our family is white, in a rural primarily white area, which is relevant to my question.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2019

In Hillbrow, we lived in a white area, and nobody looked like me.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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