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- noun Plural form of
ethnic .
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Examples
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The warning that comes from senior Chinese intelligence officers to the Karens, the Shans, and other ethnics is to ‘come to us for help — not the Americans — since we are next door and will never leave the area.’
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The warning that comes from senior Chinese intelligence officers to the Karens, the Shans, and other ethnics is to ‘come to us for help — not the Americans — since we are next door and will never leave the area.’
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While it is a French-speaking city – largely – it has an enormous English-speaking minority and a large number of what are called ethnics: they who are largely immigrant communities, but who politically and culturally tend to identify with the English community.
Archive 2008-07-01 Alison 2008
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Beck is a commentator on the network who has had a talking head refer to minorities in this country as "another species" and "ethnics" -- I therefore find it difficult to take Beck's accusations of "racism" seriously.
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Because, presumably, none of that which Ms Alibhai-Brown just shared with us immediately above could possibly be "code" for the facts that Mr Fry is of He wears a light suit, sometimes a hat, talks to people here and there with less interest than you would give to the eating of a hamburger, patronises some strange "ethnics" - Chinese Americans in particular, then wanders off, his mind clearly elsewhere …
Expat Yank 2008
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Because, presumably, none of that which Ms Alibhai-Brown just shared with us immediately above could possibly be "code" for the facts that He wears a light suit, sometimes a hat, talks to people here and there with less interest than you would give to the eating of a hamburger, patronises some strange "ethnics" - Chinese Americans in particular, then wanders off, his mind clearly elsewhere …
Expat Yank 2008
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There is Brian Kilmeade bemoaning intermingling the races, mixing the "ethnics," marrying Italians, the Irish, everybody.
Robert J. Elisberg: Hate Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry Robert J. Elisberg 2010
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There is Brian Kilmeade bemoaning intermingling the races, mixing the "ethnics," marrying Italians, the Irish, everybody.
Robert J. Elisberg: Hate Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry Robert J. Elisberg 2010
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The recap: Fred Malek, who in 1971 aided President Richard Nixon by naming the "ethnics" in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has become chairman of Gov.
Fred Malek: It's not the 'Jew-counting,' it's the deception 2010
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Check out this memo which featured a detailed chart of the number of positions occupied by "ethnics" in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a memo written by an official other than Malek but featuring a line added at the bottom by Malek, who initialed that line "FVM":
Top GOP power-broker Frederic Malek counted "ethnics" for Nixon 2010
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