Klan
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- Klanism noun
Example Sentences
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The center filed lawsuits aimed at bankrupting Klan organizations, unsympathetic defendants that made easy targets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Similar tactics were used against the Ku Klux Klan, Students for a Democratic Society, and Black Power groups.
From Slate • Aug. 30, 2025
One hundred years ago this past Feb. 3 — my birthday — Anaheim voters recalled the four Klan councilmembers.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025
Brown did not overturn the will of Congress, and in fact “enforced the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, one of the federal laws the Supreme Court had earlier gutted.”
From Salon • Aug. 31, 2024
Kennedy saw the Klan as the terrorist arm of the white establishment itself.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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