How to Use ethnic minorities in a Sentence

ethnic minorities

plural noun
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  • Yet those gains are not still small, and only 22% of board seats are taken by members of racial and ethnic minorities.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 16 June 2023
  • At the same time, racial and ethnic minorities saw slower income gains in the period through 2021.
    — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The move is the latest in a series of actions the U.S. has taken against China over its treatment of ethnic minorities.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Racial and ethnic minorities now hold 20% of all board seats at the nation’s largest public companies for the first time, according to a new study.
    — WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
  • But that data revealed that only 14% of them had at least 30% of their directors coming from racial or ethnic minorities.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Racial and ethnic minorities are routinely treated in this way.
    — Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 5 Dec. 2023
  • And the immigration has not stopped -- Filipinos are one of the fastest growing ethnic minorities in Hawaii, according to research from the University of Hawaii.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Attacks on gay and transgender people and ethnic minorities have surged.
    — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
  • The honor is a weighty one, as there are only 627 venture-capital firms are majority-owned by women and/or ethnic minorities in the United States as of last year.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 12 Dec. 2022
  • So, too, is ensuring that all Minnesotans – especially those in racial and ethnic minorities – trust our courts to provide fair and equal access to justice.
    — Natalie Hudson, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The singling out of ethnic minorities is intentional, human rights groups say.
    — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Against this backdrop, Charles has tried to demonstrate the continuing relevance of the monarchy by reaching out to faith leaders, ethnic minorities and each of the four nations that make up the United Kingdom.
    — Danica Kirka, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Over the past decade, several sports teams have changed their names and mascots to eliminate racist names and imagery that depict Native American and ethnic minorities with stereotypes.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The share of workers with multiple jobs is also higher among Gen Z and ethnic minorities, making up 30% and 28% of the workers with multiple jobs respectively.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 21 June 2023
  • The majority of Cambodians are Khmer and ethnic minorities include the Cham people.
    — The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Multiple studies have found that ethnic minorities are far less likely to seek and receive treatment for eating disorders.
    — Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The inequality is even starker among certain ethnic minorities, with Māori women earning 81 cents to the dollar and Pasifika women earning just 75 cents.
    — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
  • If the antibody treatment is not accepted for the Vaccines for Children program, that will limit access to the shot for the uninsured and those on Medicaid, the majority of whom represent racial or ethnic minorities, Moore said.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2023
  • In states like Missouri and Wisconsin, Republican state politicians have already set their sights on scholarships for racial and/or ethnic minorities.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • Those actions demolished the previous bounds of acceptable speech, inviting more people to weigh in with wild theories and emotions about religious and ethnic minorities.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Racial and ethnic minorities also are more likely to die from diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma and heart disease than their white counterparts, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    — Ronnie Cohen | Kff Health News, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Instead, Americans in regions with declining maternal health care and racial and ethnic minorities are making up the majority of cases.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Buoyant sales are also underpinned by the increasing consumption of haggis in forms inspired by Scotland’s ethnic minorities.
    — Angus MacKinnon, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Satellite images helped reporters confirm the existence of detention camps where the Communist Party has imprisoned thousands of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the northwestern province of Xinjiang.
    — Mike Chinoy, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Additionally, there are still far too few people from ethnic minorities and LGBT+ people studying engineering or working in the profession.
    — John Browne, Fortune, 21 July 2023
  • McDuffie kept pushing by seeing if a version of his prompt would make violent images targeting specific groups, including women and ethnic minorities.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
  • There's many more cases that involve government critics: protesters, human rights champions, Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities.
    — Jane Onyanga-Omara Julius Lasin usa Today, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The government largely prohibits gathering data on its population’s ethnicity or religion, but citizens of North African descent make up a large share of the millions of people from ethnic minorities living in France.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 1 July 2023
  • These programs previously specified that they were intended for women and ethnic minorities.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Movies embracing Spain’s ethnic minorities, Latin American or Moroccan, are fewer and farer between, however.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023

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