How to Use multiracial in a Sentence
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The Jim Crow era was not kind to Stevens and his ideals of a multiracial democracy.
—Tracy Schorn, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
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The rest went to multiracial students and students whose race was unknown.
—Troy Closson, New York Times, 2 June 2023
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The Warnock campaign’s grassroots efforts helped to build the kind of multiracial coalition that would have made Dr. King proud.
—Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 10 Dec. 2022
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On that sweltering summer day, the multiracial crowd hoisted signs, and protest songs filled the air.
—Donna M. Owens, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
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There are some people that have a multiracial background that, based on their optics, can make a choice.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 17 Jan. 2023
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The room filled up with a multiracial and multigenerational group of friends and fans.
—Imani Perry Janina Edwards Krish Seenivasan Devin Murphy, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
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Rodwell also hired a multiracial staff, which was a statement in itself at the time.
—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
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There’s never been a country music star quite like Brown, who is multiracial and a young dad at 27.
—Hector Saldana, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Oct. 2021
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The multiracial cast of six women is majority POC, a first in the history of the franchise.
—Time, 14 July 2023
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These men were seen as a threat, and Tiger Bay — a multiracial melting pot and home to trade unions and anti-colonial ferment — was a flashpoint of those fears.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
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Trayvon became, for a new generation of multiracial activists, the canary in the coal mine.
—Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 26 Feb. 2022
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In fact, in the last decade, the number of Latinos who identify as multiracial has increased from 3 million to 20 million.
—NBC News, 4 Oct. 2021
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There are so many ‘multiracial’ people now, all over the world, that the whole concept of race looks increasingly ridiculous.
—Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
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Reading scores were more pronounced for Black, multiracial, and white students.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 21 June 2023
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The movie opens with an all-girl, multiracial garage band coping with Gwen Stacy’s (Hailee Steinfeld) malaise and ends with a team as powerful as rock stars ready to save the world.
—Eisa Nefertari Ulen, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
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The group was not exempt to the unprecedented growth of multiracial Americans across the country.
—Nicole Chavez, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
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In other words, that Kennedy- and King-style multiracial coalition may not come easily.
—Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
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Being multiracial—her mother is Japanese and her father, who was born in Haiti, is Black—added to her appeal.
—Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
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They’re followed by the ominous finger snaps that foreshadow a story of love caught in the crossfire of racial hatred in a multiracial New York neighborhood in the 1950s.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
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About 10% of the county’s population is Black and more than 7% is multiracial, according to the Census Bureau.
—Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024
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About 10% of the county's population is Black and more than 7% is multiracial, according to the Census Bureau.
—Fatima Hussein and Josh Boak, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
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Puerto Rico was one of the places where the most pronounced growth of multiracial population was reported in the 2020 census.
—Amir Vera and Alexander Pineda, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
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One is that the play opens a new line of inquiry as Nina (who is biracial) and William (who is multiracial) explore the way identity inflects their art and ambition.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
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Growing up as a multiracial person in the United States, Alexis Reeves was no stranger to the impact of racial discrimination.
—Byjyoti Madhusoodanan, science.org, 11 Nov. 2022
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Census officials said the changes revealed that the U.S. population is much more multiracial and more diverse than was measured in the past.
—Lillian Reed, baltimoresun.com, 11 Oct. 2021
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Disney+'s Cheaper by the Dozen remake stars Union and Braff, 46, as parents within a multiracial, blended family of 12.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 17 Mar. 2022
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Moreover, there are questions about how multiracial groups should be coded in health databases and algorithms.
—Anirban Basu, The Conversation, 26 May 2023
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Building that kind of multiracial working class coalition has proven harder on a national scale.
—Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2022
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No two bodies look alike, as these multiethnic and multiracial artists can attest.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2024
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And in 1994, South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime dissolved into a vibrant multiracial democracy led by Nelson Mandela.
—Judd Devermont, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2024
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