gentile
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“You can’t look scared,” Halina instructs Mila about passing for gentile, at which she’s something of an expert.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2024
Now, because it occurs around the biggest holiday here for our gentile friends, we make a much bigger deal out of it.
From Salon • Dec. 14, 2023
“We reaffirm that Jew and gentile, we are one nation under God; that black and white, we are one nation indivisible; that Republican and Democrat, we are all Americans,” he said.
From Washington Times • Jul. 3, 2023
As he crossed the goal line, Singleton slowed to a gentile walk, barely leapt off the ground to chest-bump a teammate and lightly tossed the ball to an official.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2022
Her clothes were a kind of shibboleth to me; they signaled that she was not a gentile, and for a few hours I felt less alone.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Vocabulary lists containing gentile
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech
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"Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began" by Art Spiegelman
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