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one of the segments of society into which people are grouped
a member of the upper caste
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Recent Examples of caste
These days, things have changed — thanks to landmark civil rights cases like Loving v. Virginia and more mixed-race families from all over the world — but this racial caste system still very much exists.
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Melanie Curry, Refinery29, 19 Apr. 2025
So if the party was going to succeed, this class had to be destroyed and replaced with a new bureaucratic caste of Communist officials.
—Ian Johnson, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025
The inequality is in many ways the legacy of apartheid, a decades-long racial caste system in which the country’s former white-minority government violently segregated nonwhite South Africans into communities that were left to rot.
—Lee-Ann Olwage, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
But there was always the threat of lynchings and other forms of racial violence for those who defied the racial caste system of Jim Crow.
—Kendra D. Boyd, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
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Melanie Curry, Refinery29, 19 Apr. 2025
So if the party was going to succeed, this class had to be destroyed and replaced with a new bureaucratic caste of Communist officials.
—Ian Johnson, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025
The inequality is in many ways the legacy of apartheid, a decades-long racial caste system in which the country’s former white-minority government violently segregated nonwhite South Africans into communities that were left to rot.
—Lee-Ann Olwage, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
But there was always the threat of lynchings and other forms of racial violence for those who defied the racial caste system of Jim Crow.
—Kendra D. Boyd, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caste
Noun
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The class is specifically designed to provide an opportunity to ask questions about Christianity and our Lutheran theology.—
Carin Schoppmeyer,
Arkansas Online,
24 May 2025
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Trump spoke for nearly an hour to the class of 2025 at their commencement ceremony, taking moments to honor individual members of the class and heralding the whole class as the future of the military.—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
24 May 2025
Noun
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Ironically, given the rhetoric around tariffs and overseas filmmaking taking away American jobs, these resources would have provided a valuable foundation for more production to take place on the local level.—
Eric Kohn,
HollywoodReporter,
30 May 2025
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But these technologies can take aftermarket services to new levels.—
Jean-Louis Rassineux,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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“Caste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caste. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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