ethnically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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“It’s more complicated ethnically, civically and historically,” so a protracted war there “is not going to be like Iraq — it’s going to be 10 times worse,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2026
These choices reshaped U.S. demographics and institutions, with the current Congress “the most racially and ethnically diverse in history,” according to the Pew Research Center.
From Salon • Jan. 22, 2026
India is a huge country, home to 22 languages, the menu of the world’s religions and an ethnically mixed population.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
The succession of dynastic governments that ruled over China’s heartland were sometimes ethnically Han, and sometimes northerners—Mongols and Manchus especially—who ruled empires now referred to as “Chinese.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Most Austrians were ethnically Germanic, and this wasn’t an invasion of their country.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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