How to Use non-Hispanic in a Sentence

non-Hispanic

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  • That number was 55% for non-Hispanic Black adults in the state.
    — Melba Newsome | Kff Health News, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The effect seemed strongest among women and non-Hispanic whites.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
  • That’s the plan at the institute, Morin said, adding that the funds would help non-Hispanic students too.
    — Natalie Yahr, jsonline.com, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Cancer rates were highest among males ages 0 to 4, and non-Hispanic white children.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • Women on average make 83 cents on the dollar for what a white, non-Hispanic man makes.
    — Holly Corbett, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Black men, for one, are dying from cancer at a rate 20 percent higher than that of non-Hispanic white men.
    — Rozalynn S. Frazier, Men's Health, 18 May 2023
  • Black and Hispanic workers’ wages went up, while non-Hispanic white workers’ wages went down.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Higgins would be the first Democrat and first non-Hispanic mayor of the city in nearly 30 years.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
  • But there were stark differences, namely with non-Hispanic Black infants and mothers.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The report looked at death rates for Black, Hispanic and non-Hispanic white youths up to 19 years old.
    — Katie Mogg, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The share of fatal overdoses of white, non-Hispanic adolescents is vastly greater than for their nonwhite peers – more so than for adults.
    — Ty Schepis, The Conversation, 27 Nov. 2023
  • For women in their 40s, non-Hispanic White women had slightly higher rates.
    — Julie Scott, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Those who are Hispanic have a 48% chance and those who are non-Hispanic White have a 79% chance.
    — Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
  • According to those numbers, non-Hispanic Black voters have cast 22 percent of votes so far.
    — Julia Mueller, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The team found that the highest emissions linked to income came from White, non-Hispanic homes, and the lowest came from Black households.
    — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The non-Hispanic population in San Francisco has dropped over 8% in the same time.
    — Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 1 July 2024
  • For women in their 20s and 30s, breast cancer was most common in non-Hispanic Black women.
    — Julie Scott, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Leading the way in the aging of America is the white, non-Hispanic population.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 4 June 2023
  • About 80% of Black women are overweight or obese, compared to about 64% of non-Hispanic white women.
    — Emma Copley Eisenberg, TIME, 24 June 2024
  • Kohlbeck acknowledged, too, that much of the suicide prevention work writ large has been tailored to white, non-Hispanic populations.
    — Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • About 64% of the directors identified as non-Hispanic white, compared to 71% last year.
    — Vianna Davila, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Hispanics accounted for 41% of all victims and non-Hispanic white for just 35%.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2024
  • All participants were at least 20 years old, around half were men, and 73 percent self-identified as non-Hispanic white adults.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But 20% of African American adults smoke, which is more than twice the rate of non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 8 July 2025
  • This outpaced the growth in Black and Asian households (18%) and non-Hispanic white households (14%).
    — Isaac Mizrahi, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Latina, Black and Native American mothers who worked full time earned about half as much as the white, non-Hispanic fathers.
    — Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Slightly over half of the participants were female and about 75% of identified as non-Hispanic White.
    — Kaitlin Vogel, Health, 28 July 2023
  • During the same period, the state lost about 25,000 white non-Hispanic residents.
    — Jennifer Peebles, AJC.com, 25 June 2026
  • Today, a Black woman who works full-time will make 67 cents on the dollar compared to a typical White, non-Hispanic man.
    — Melanie Campbell and Cassandra Welchlin, Essence, 27 July 2023
  • Most of the girls in the system were Black, and most of the boys in the system were white, which encompasses both white non-Hispanic and white Hispanic youths.
    — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2023

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