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apartheid

noun as in racial segregation

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The club eventually allowed women and Black people to join as the country transitioned away from apartheid.

They accused this tiny little country, Israel, of all the Western evils: apartheid, genocide, colonialism, racism.

South Africa has never been a communist country — but there was apartheid and Elon Musk.

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The UN has repeatedly urged the Taliban to end what it describes as "gender apartheid".

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Well into the 20th century, writes Mr. Easterly, apologists for apartheid pointed out that “Black South Africans were on average materially better off than most other Africans were.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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