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- noun Plural form of
Asian .
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Examples
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America is 33% NAMs (Non-Asian Minorities, e.g., blacks and Hispanics) who earn less, on average, than whites in Asians in every mixed-race country on earth.
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The economic success of the newly arrived Asians is indeed overwhelming evidence that inheritance has little do do with overall wealth creation.
What Explains Inequality?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The movement will see Asians from the Orient and the diaspora doing YWAM-style street evangelism, soup kitchens, outreach to prostitutes and drug addicts, and coffee house ministries to students.
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It is rare in Asians and other groups and more common in temperate areas of the world away from the Equator.
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Missionary attrition among Asians is due to the poor screening of missionary candidates.
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I am white, and have always described my eyes as almond-shaped, and that anyone would do the same for Asians is apalling and somewhat hilarious.
Almond Eyes 2006
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After living in east Asia for four years, one thing I can tell you about Asians is that they will out-compete, out-work, and out-study the average American or Canadian.
Archive 2005-12-01 JDsg 2005
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After living in east Asia for four years, one thing I can tell you about Asians is that they will out-compete, out-work, and out-study the average American or Canadian.
Will the Last Person Leaving Detroit Please Turn Off the Light on Their Way Out? JDsg 2005
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Our earliest studies showed a high frequency of Australia antigen, the surface antigen of HBV, in Asians and Pacific Islanders.
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So now the people the EDL are opposed to are called "Asians"?
The Guardian World News Deborah Orr 2011
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