racially
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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She said: "Those officers appear to have attended a scene with a belief that they must put anything that is allegedly racially motivated above anything else. And that is absolutely inaccurate, it's wrong."
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Under Supreme Court precedent, it is unconstitutional for prosecutors to dismiss potential jurors based on race, and defendants have a right to challenge any dismissals as racially motivated.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Congress responded boldly to that ruling—it rewrote Section 2 of the VRA to allow minority voters to say that plans that had a racially discriminatory effect were vote dilution.
From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026
This is one of the first large studies to examine the link between ultra-processed food intake and heart disease in a racially diverse group of U.S. adults.
From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026
As described by William Julius Wilson in his book When Work Disappears, the overwhelming majority of African Americans in the 1970s lacked college educations and had attended racially segregated, underfunded schools lacking basic resources.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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