supremacist

noun

sə-ˈpre-mə-sist How to pronounce supremacist (audio)
Definition of supremacistnext
as in racist
a person who believes that one race is superior to others one of the most notorious groups of white supremacists

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Recent Examples of supremacist On the eve of Election Day, 1898, White supremacists launched a bloody attack, forcing Laurinburg’s Black citizens to flee. — Essence, 4 Nov. 2025 Constantly landing on jokes — like in its portrayal of Lockjaw and his efforts to become a member of the Christmas Adventurers Club, a powerful white-supremacists faction — siphons a sense of urgency from the film’s sketches of American unrest and white male violence. — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025 The Australian White supremacist Brenton Tarrant made the symbol during a 2019 courtroom appearance following his arrest for murdering 50 people in a shooting at mosques in New Zealand. — Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 15 June 2026 Dylann Roof internalized white-supremacist messages from websites surfaced by search algorithms, and later carried out the 2015 shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for supremacist
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racist
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  • Then, alongside the civil rights movement of the 1960s, activists and lawmakers who saw the national quota system as racist pushed to replace it with one based on employment and family ties.
    — Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Does being called a racist really bother you anymore?
    — Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of racist

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