How to Use Latinx in a Sentence

Latinx

adjective
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  • Black workers are now at 7.8% and Latinx workers are at 7.7%.
    — Jeff Green, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Her success and drive would pave the way for female golfers and for Latinx athletes for generations.
    — Halley Bondy, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021
  • About 70 percent of Black and Latinx workers as well as women, trans, and non-binary people felt the same way, the data show.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Because there is too much Latinx talent and genius that gets squandered.
    — John Leguizamo, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2023
  • What’s more, the term Afro-Latino is often used to describe Latinx people with African ancestry.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The large number of Latinx residents of the city are an important part of the community’s culture.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The director, Steven Spielberg held an open casting call for Latinx actors.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Its goal it to expand the presence of Latinx stories and artists on the American stage and spotlight the broad range of today’s Latinx experience.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2023
  • On the other hand, Latinx folks with bilingual parents or grandparents have little control over whether Spanish is passed down to them or not.
    — Marisa Tirado, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The same is true for Latinx creatives: only five of the top films featured Latinx leads, and of the four Latinx writers and four Latinx directors ranking in the top 200, none were women.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Rivera, whose father was Puerto Rican, soon became one of Broadway’s most notable triple-threats (actor-singer-dancer), paving the way for Latinx artists to follow.
    — Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • African American and Latinx students had much larger declines compared to their White peers.
    — Ron Avi Astor, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
  • To begin with, the Latinx population is now almost twenty per cent of the country, up from five per cent when Blades started his career, in the seventies.
    — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Roundabout officials said the second year of the Refocus Project would focus on Latinx playwrights.
    — Charles Passy, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The show was widely produced for years and Solis’ Latinx theatrical world continued to expand.
    — Luis G. Rendon, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The curators saw the exhibit as a place to underline the sense of community between Latinx creatives in fashion.
    — Kerensa Cadenas, ELLE, 1 June 2023
  • Kinfolk is a hub for connecting the community with art in the 100-year-old home of Sedrick’s grandmother, located in the Black and Latinx neighborhood of Polytechnic.
    — Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Typically, Latinx people are presented as white-adjacent, which has led to the erasure of anyone who does not fit that narrow mold.
    — Johanna Ferreira, Allure, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Mancini has parlayed her pastry chef pedigree into a new ice cream brand that riffs on beloved Latinx flavor profiles with swirls of cajeta, mezcal and chocolate with flan.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • For many Latinx business owners, their companies were born out of the absence of seeing people like themselves represented in stores.
    — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Woman's Day, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Black and Latinx people are dying at disproportional rates from the virus, and working moms are losing their jobs or being pushed out of the workforce at far higher rates than their male counterparts.
    — Danielle Campoamor, Woman's Day, 14 Oct. 2020
  • There’s that component to it, and then there is seeing that, within the Latinx population, their migration was extending.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Sphinx aims to increase representation of Black and Latinx artists in classical music.
    — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Inspired by Latinx heritage, this blends patauá, maracujá, and chia seed oils sourced from Latin America—plus cupuaçu butter, aloe vera extract, castor and açaí oil into a oil that's neither heavy nor greasy.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Lastly, Latinx designer Willy Charvarria closed fashion week with a bang.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Women of color — Black, Asian, Latinx, mixed-race women — were 34 percent more likely to be mentioned in abusive or problematic tweets than White women.
    — Washington Post, 6 May 2022
  • In Los Angeles, Leguizamo notes that Latinx people represent nearly 50% of the city’s population.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • There are, in fact, nine states that have enacted bans on racial preferences in state colleges, with some reporting a drop in African American and Latinx admissions at top institutions.
    — Rita Braver, CBS News, 4 June 2023
  • Thomas believes this unconscious bias likely stems from harmful stereotypes about Latinx people in general.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 June 2024
  • Public health experts have already seen the fallout, noting that the first neighborhoods to lose their pharmacies are often predominantly Black, Latinx and low-income.
    — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023

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