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caste

[kast, kahst] / kæst, kɑst /


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In reality, no such grader existed, but 1,000 agents believed he did, and that belief produced an entire social caste of agents sure they had nothing left to lose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Mukul Sharma, a researcher on caste and environmental politics, said increasing water supplies was only part of the solution.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Students from across the country have joined the protests in Delhi, transcending caste, religion and regional identities.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

At independence, India adopted a modest 12.5% quota for the “scheduled castes,” or Dalits, widely acknowledged as the most-disadvantaged victims of caste discrimination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

We now turn to another important difference between mass incarceration and Jim Crow: the direct harm to whites caused by the current caste system.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Reports say this careful selection of judges, representing different genders, religions, castes and regions, will help "lend wider legitimacy to a verdict that will inevitably traverse contested terrain".

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026

Proteins, of course; RNA acts as the major-domo, a bridge between the castes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

Sociologist Satish Deshpande and economist Mary E John call the decision not to count castes "one of independent India's biggest mistakes".

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

Most ants have two morphologically differentiated adult castes -- queens and workers -- each irreversibly specialized for either reproduction or nonreproductive altruism such as foraging, defense and care of maternal brood.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024

But their jaws were so enormous that they had to carry themselves very erect, and they could not make quite as good time as the other castes.

From Jungle Peace by William Beebe


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