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Belonging to the people in a race (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tribal

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'belonging to the people in a race' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'belonging to the people in' is the wordplay.
'belonging to' becomes 'trial' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'the people' becomes 'B' (B is an example).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'trial' going around 'b' is 'TRIBAL'.

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(Other definitions for tribal that I've seen before include "Of a traditional social group" , "socially divided" , "Clannish" , "between extended families" , "Relating to a group of families" .)

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