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white area

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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

The girls grew up in a predominantly white area of Pennsylvania and although they looked different from all of their friends, they always basically felt like they were white.

From Seattle Times Jun. 20, 2023

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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