biracial
adjective
bi·ra·cial
(ˌ)bī-ˈrā-shəl 
: of, relating to, or involving members of two races (see race entry 1 sense 1a)
a biracial coalition
biracial couples
also
: having parents from two races
biracial children
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In 1987, a lonely, overweight biracial teenager named Diamond Newberry struggles to make sense of her dad’s mysterious disappearance seven years earlier.
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Shannon Carlin, TIME, 22 May 2024
And Drake, who is biracial, has been called out as a performer who wears his Blackness as a costume and steals styles and sounds from his peers.
—Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2024
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Shannon Carlin, TIME, 22 May 2024
And Drake, who is biracial, has been called out as a performer who wears his Blackness as a costume and steals styles and sounds from his peers.
—Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2024
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biracial
adjective
bi·ra·cial
(ˈ)bī-ˈrā-shəl
: of, relating to, or involving people from two races
biracial communities
especially
: having biological parents of two different ethnic identities
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