How to Use affinity group in a Sentence
affinity group
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One is to join a section’s or council’s life member affinity group.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Sep. 2022
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There are many reasons to want an affinity group to be part of your selection criteria.
—David John Marotta, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
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The school vowed to continue to hold conversations with Fran's House affinity group students about the future of their housing needs.
—Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 16 May 2021
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And student affinity groups, including clubs like the Black student union, are growing.
—Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2024
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Ali, the Penn student, said all Black students are eligible for membership to their affinity group.
—Uwa Ede-Osifo, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
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Does the account present itself as an affinity group but without a clear mention of a person or organization running the group?
—Suhauna Hussain Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2020
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This event involved all the affinity groups coming together to share our own cultural dishes that involve rice.
—oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023
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The intertribal All Nations Singers are in front, then the folks carrying sacred eagle staffs, then tribal flag bearers, then the bannermen from a range of affinity groups.
—Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2019
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Expanding and adding resource centers and affinity groups could help those students feel more welcome on campus, experts said.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
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Adams’s Peter is the skeptical newcomer to the affinity group, reluctantly popping his head in, puzzled at their habits and language.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 2 July 2022
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Indiana Modern, an affinity group of Indiana Landmarks, sponsors the tour, scheduled for 1 to 6 p.m. June 2.
—Maureen C. Gilmer, Indianapolis Star, 25 May 2018
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Parents Defending Education asked the court to eliminate both the racial affinity group and biased speech policies.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2021
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What about all the other spinoffs? Humans of New York has inspired many similar Instagram accounts around the world that share stories of people in a particular country, city, school or affinity group.
—Niha Masih, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
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The transcript of the February session with Mr. Rossi’s white affinity group revealed a tense, probing discussion, with teachers and students found on either side of various questions.
—Michael Powell, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2021
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Also explore whether your company has an employee resource group or affinity group for parents—or start one yourself.
—Tracy Brower, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
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Eventually, Digital Jack will migrate into the metaverse, possibly even showing up in a golf affinity group, allowing users to get advice on their swing or play a round of golf with the legend.
—Partner Content, Variety, 6 July 2022
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That means better pay, coupled with mental health support, employee affinity groups and fun extracurriculars that don’t center on post-shift drinks.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 30 May 2023
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With less than 1% of the district’s student population identifying as Indigenous, Moss wanted to create change and co-founded an Indigenous affinity group, which is the only one at the district’s six middle and high schools.
—Sandeep Brijesh Pillai, oregonlive, 23 July 2023
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It is led by an employee affinity group—dubbed Hula—focused on women and their allies, and this quarter 42 percent of the Hulu employees who volunteered to participate in it as mentors are men.
—Ed Frauenheim, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2019
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One way schools can compensate for lower admissions is by focusing on retention through mentorship programs and affinity groups for their students of color to reduce college dropout rates.
—Time, 29 June 2023
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The recommendations include, among others, training staff on how to discuss the conflict, supporting affinity groups, and hosting interfaith panels.
—Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2023
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There is a complex American firearm ecosystem, a machine built to benefit corporate priorities, smoothed along by craven and greedy politicians, molded into an identity by affinity groups.
—Jill Filipovic, Time, 4 Oct. 2017
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For this Thursday’s session our affinity groups will be based around racial identification, with one of our two groups consisting of staff that identify as individuals of color and our other group consisting of those that identify as White.
—WSJ, 17 Dec. 2017
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Within a city, people weren’t really dealing with those around them: social proximity—being friends of friends, or part of an affinity group—not geographic proximity, was the best predictor of who connected with whom.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
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Seek out industry affinity group meetups and set up coffee chats, or consider volunteering in an unpaid capacity.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2023
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Safe spaces, whether in the form of affinity groups or confidential forums, allow women to discuss issues openly and collaboratively find solutions.
—Sarah Dant, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
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In today’s globalized world, community is defined less by physical proximity and more by connection to affinity groups.
—Anthony Alofsin, The Atlantic, 6 June 2018
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With input from residents, the Life Enrichment staff offers more than a hundred clubs, affinity groups and opportunities for service in the community, in addition to a vast array of traditional activities.
—The Republic | Azcentral.com, azcentral, 26 Mar. 2018
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Ensure your leaders and managers complete DEI training including how to use inclusive language, how to create psychological safety across teams and how to effectively support affinity group leaders.
—Yec, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
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The interior secretary’s straight talk about diversity should clearly reveal the void that can be filled only by the remainder of the green ecosystem—the affinity groups, conservation and environmental organizations, and outdoor industry.
—Glenn Nelson, Outside Online, 3 Apr. 2018
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