How to Use ethnic minorities in a Sentence

ethnic minorities

plural noun
  • Kurds are one of Iran's largest ethnic minorities.
    — Younes Mohammad, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The progress earned by ethnic minorities and women in the armed services was hard-won.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Racial and ethnic minorities and those with greater health needs were most affected.
    — Aparna Soni, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The index saw a drop nearly twice as steep among women compared to men, and ethnic minorities four times as steep.
    — Nadia Edwards-Dashti, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Racial and ethnic minorities are routinely treated in this way.
    — Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 5 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Which means that high-school graduates, the poor and ethnic minorities are the least likely to earn credit-card rewards.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Attacks on gay and transgender people and ethnic minorities have surged.
    — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
  • Tajiks and Uzbeks are substantial ethnic minorities in Afghanistan.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But children from ethnic minorities in border regions seem to be treated as an exception.
    — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The pride of the British aristocracy and a heroine to gay people and ethnic minorities.
    — Air Mail, 10 May 2025
  • The singling out of ethnic minorities is intentional, human rights groups say.
    — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • One in 4 was best served in a language other than English; about 63% were racial or ethnic minorities.
    — Devi Shastri The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 28 Jan. 2024
  • China has said its approach is to bring development to ethnic minorities areas.
    — ABC News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • 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 representation of racial and ethnic minorities in doctoral awards has increased over time.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Less than 25% of AI workers identify as racial or ethnic minorities.
    — Dr. Angélica S. Gutiérrez, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The remaining 2% will be set aside for members of ethnic minorities and transgender and disabled people.
    — Julhas Alam, arkansasonline.com, 22 July 2024
  • 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 city is largely populated by two of China’s ethnic minorities, the Miao and the Dong.
    — Dennis Zhou, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • This is despite the fact that ethnic minorities and lower earners are more likely to develop obesity, in general.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Iranians are also religious and ethnic minorities in the wider world, and that has bred existential fears of foreign conquest.
    — Robin Wright, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • But there is plenty of humor that plays at the expense of transgender people, ethnic minorities, women, gay men, religious cults and Fabio.
    — Phil Stark, HollywoodReporter, 4 Dec. 2025
  • About 50% of those listed are racial and ethnic minorities, compared with 41% of the overall federal workforce.
    — USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Medicare Advantage growth has been particularly strong among people with low incomes and among racial and ethnic minorities.
    — Grace McCormack, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The numbers reveal almost stagnant progress while Black employees face the biggest pay gap compared to other ethnic minorities overall.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The installation highlights how 85 percent of the victims belonged to ethnic minorities.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 12 May 2025

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