How to Use Ashkenazi in a Sentence

Ashkenazi

noun
  • Members of the Ashkenazi majority called them slurs like shwarts.
    — Amanda Chemeche, Harper's BAZAAR, 2023-06-07
  • The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.
    — NBC News, 2024-11-17
  • When downloading, try to verify the name and publisher of the app is the same as posted on that city site, Ashkenazi says.
    — Jason Clayworth, Axios, 2024-07-16
  • One reserve captain, Moti Ashkenazi, began a lone protest a few months after the 1973 war.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 2024-02-28
  • Here, Granit puts a gourmet spin on the Ashkenazi comfort food made by his grandmother to spectacular effect.
    — Vogue, 2024-07-08
  • Alphabet’s Ashkenazi also said AI agents are already writing about 50% of Google’s own code.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The term Ashkenazi is generally used to refer Jewish people whose ancestors lived in parts of Europe.
    — Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 2023-08-11
  • Gantz’s deputy, Gabi Ashkenazi, will serve as foreign minister before the rotation and defense minister after it.
    — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 2020-05-26
  • The majority of the charge was reflected in expenses for research and development, Ashkenazi said.
    — Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026
  • My own family follows Ashkenazi Passover customs, which means many of Rome’s most iconic Passover treats are off limits during the week-long holiday.
    — Leah Koenig, Washington Post, 2023-03-31
  • What’s more, Black individuals and those of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry are also at higher risk and should have more frequent screenings.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 2023-10-16
  • Ashkenazi, who joined Google as finance chief last year, said the company has a number of prospects, including the potential to bring more customers from physical data centers into the cloud.
    — Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Poland was the center of Ashkenazi Jewry before the Holocaust, but by the end of World War II, just 10% of the community remained.
    — George Ramsay, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Klezmer, a centuries-old style of traditional folk music originated by Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe, is known for its rich melodies, heavy improvisation, and danceable beats.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 2024-09-11
  • Demand is so high that the company’s cloud services now have a backlog, a measure of future committed revenue, of $106 billion, CFO Anat Ashkenazi said on the earnings call.
    — Jennifer Elias,mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2025
  • According to Ashkenazi, the majority of Alphabet’s capex spend was invested in technical infrastructure, with about 60% going to servers and 40% to data centers and networking equipment.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Ashkenazi, for example, uses his own platform to automatically fetch transcripts for all his meetings, forward them to ChatGPT Assistant, get back a summary and list of action items, and auto-draft a follow-up email for all participants.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • About 40% of the company’s technical infrastructure investments were tied to data centers and networking equipment, while 60% were tied to servers, said Anat Ashkenazi, Google’s chief financial officer, on a conference call to discuss earnings.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Currently in production, the film’s most recent screenplay draft was penned by Jenny Taylor-Whitehorn, adapted from a script by Allie Avital & Alia Azamat Ashkenazi and based on a story and character by Peltz Beckham.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Directed by Alia Azamat Ashkenazi, a two-time United Nations Award winner, the film explores the haunting legacy of a real-life government scheme that displaced thousands of children from La Réunion to rural France under false pretenses.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Google's cloud unit, which houses most of its AI products and services, saw its backlog surge 55% sequentially and more than double year-over-year, reaching $240 billion at the end of the fourth quarter, Alphabet finance chief Anat Ashkenazi told analysts on a call Wednesday.
    — Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Rates vary significantly across communities, affecting up to 95 percent of Asian Americans, 60 to 80 percent of African Americans and Ashkenazi Jews, 80 to 100 percent of American Indians, and 50 to 80 percent of Hispanics.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Production; Huston by 111 Media, CAA, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; Gabriel by Gersh and Untitled Entertainment; Taylor-Whitehorn by Gersh; Avital by Smuggler and Sugar23; and Ashkenazi by Writ Large.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Or, Noa Kedar, Naomi Levov, Hisham Suliman, Wael Hamdoun, Yuval Semo, Avi Azulay, Naveh Tzur, Yael Abecassis, Moran Rosenblatt, Michael Aloni, Neta Roth, Sean Softi, Lior Ashkenazi and Uri Perelman.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 15 Sep. 2025
  • On The Mountain The duo Dyad — violinist Niv Ashkenazi and bassoonist Leah Kohn — performs their own arrangements of selections from Ernest Bloch, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Niccolo Paganini, Irving Berlin, Bruce Babcock, Johann Sebastian Bach, Camille Saint-Saëns and George Gershwin.
    — Arts Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026

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