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Same-sex relationship
Same-sex relationship: romantic partnerships between two people of the same sex, also called gay or lesbian relationships. Legal in nearly 40 countries as marriage; research shows similar stability, quality, and child outcomes to different-sex couples.
Sámi people
Sámi people, Indigenous people of Sápmi across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia's Kola Peninsula, numbering about 75,000–100,000, speaking nine Finno-Ugric languages, with reindeer herding as the defining traditional livelihood and Sámi Parliaments in three Nordic states.
Samoans
Samoans: Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan islands (Samoa and American Samoa). Fa'a Samoa, their 3,000-year-old culture, centers on aiga, matai chiefs, alofa, tautua, and fa'aaloalo; largest Pacific group in New Zealand.
San people
The San are the indigenous hunter-gatherer peoples of southern Africa, also once called Bushmen, known for click languages, ancient rock art, and marginalized modern livelihoods across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.
Sanctuary city
Sanctuary city: US state or local jurisdiction limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, via detainer refusals and information-sharing limits; no federal legal definition; targeted by 2025 executive orders, DOJ lawsuits largely dismissed, and crime research showing no crime increase.
Sandwich generation
Sandwich generation: middle-aged adults simultaneously caring for aging parents and their own children; term coined in the 1980s for Baby Boomers; about a quarter of U.S. adults now qualify per Pew.
Sanewashing
Sanewashing: press-criticism term for packaging radical or incoherent statements, especially Donald Trump's 2024 campaign remarks, as normal, coherent political discourse; coined around 2020, popularized by Parker Molloy in 2024.
Santa Casa da Misericórdia da Bahia
Santa Casa da Misericórdia da Bahia is a lay Catholic brotherhood in Salvador, Brazil, founded in 1549, that runs the Hospital da Caridade, among Brazil's oldest charities.
Santal people
Santal people (Santhal, self-designation Hor): Austroasiatic-speaking Adivasi community of eastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Munda-language Santali in Ol Chiki script (1925); 1855 Santal Hul rebellion led by Sido and Kanhu Murmu; Scheduled Tribe in India.
Saptapadi (सप्तपदी)
Saptapadi (सप्तपदी), the seven steps before the sacred fire, is the completing rite of the Hindu wedding; under Section 7 of the Hindu Marriage Act 1955 the marriage binds at the seventh step, though not mandatory for all Hindu marriages.
Sara Bronfman
Sara Bronfman (Bronfman-Igtet), Seagram heiress, daughter of Edgar Bronfman Sr.; senior NXIVM member, Minister of Humanities, who with sister Clare funneled over $100 million into Raniere's group, was never criminally charged, and remains a civil RICO defendant.
Sarah Baartman
Sarah (Saartjie) Baartman, c. 1789–1815, Khoikhoi woman exhibited as the "Hottentot Venus" in London and Paris; remains repatriated from the Musée de l'Homme by French law 2002-323 and buried at Hankey, South Africa.
Sarah Knox Davis
Sarah Knox Taylor Davis (1814–1835), daughter of future president Zachary Taylor, was the first wife of Jefferson Davis, dying of fever three months after their marriage.
Sarah Langa
Sarah Langa (born 1993, Soweto) is a South African content creator, model and entrepreneur behind the HeatOnTheLine fashion blog (2013), founder of Luvant and Sarah Langa Interiors, and a GQ South Africa honoree, distinct from other namesakes.
Sarah Ransome
Sarah Ransome, South African-born Epstein and Maxwell survivor, sued in 2017 (settled 2018), testified at Maxwell's 2022 sentencing, and wrote the 2021 memoir Silenced No More; her 2016 sex-tape emails are disputed.
Sarmatians
Sarmatians: a confederation of nomadic Iranian tribes (Aorsians, Alans, Roxolani, Siraces, Iazyges) related to the Scythians; by c. 200 BC they controlled land west of the Don, spoke Iranian dialects ancestral to Ossetian, and spread to the Carpathian Basin.
Saroo Brierley
Saroo Brierley (Saroo Munshi Khan), Indian-born Australian lost at age 5 on a train near Khandwa in 1986, adopted in Tasmania, and reunited with his mother in 2012 after locating his hometown via Google Earth; memoir A Long Way Home inspired the film Lion.
Sati (सती) (practice)
Sati (सती) is the Hindu funeral practice of burning or burying a widow with her husband's body; prohibited by Bentinck's Regulation XVII in 1829 and criminalized, with its glorification, by India's Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987.
Satish Kumar (सतीश कुमार)
Satish Kumar (सतीश कुमार), born 1936 in Rajasthan, is an Indian-British former Jain monk, peace pilgrim, and ecological educator. He walked 8,000 miles for nuclear disarmament, edited Resurgence for 43 years, and co-founded Schumacher College in Devon.
Satyagraha (सत्याग्रह)
Satyagraha (सत्याग्रह), coined by Mohandas Gandhi in South Africa in 1906, is his method of nonviolent resistance, 'holding firm to truth' or truth-force, built on satya, ahimsa, and self-suffering, and distinct from passive resistance and duragraha.
Saudade
Saudade (Portuguese and Galician) is a bittersweet longing for an absent person, place, or past. From Latin solitatem via soidade; central to fado, saudosismo, and Brazilian culture; studied empirically with a three-factor scale.
Saudia Flight 163
Saudia Flight 163, Saudia Arabian Airlines L-1011 HZ-AHK, caught fire after Riyadh takeoff on 19 August 1980, landed safely, then burned on a taxiway; all 301 died of smoke inhalation, doors unopenable due to cabin overpressure.
Sauk people
The Sauk, historically also called the Sac, are an Algonquian-speaking Native American people closely allied with the Fox, now organized in federally recognized tribes in Oklahoma, Iowa, and Kansas.
Saurabh Dwivedi (सौरभ द्विवेदी)
Saurabh Dwivedi (सौरभ द्विवेदी), born 1983, Indian journalist; founding editor of The Lallantop (2016) and editor of India Today Hindi; left India Today Group January 2026, now Editor of Indian Express Hindi.
Savage Love
Savage Love is Dan Savage's weekly sex and relationship advice column, launched in 1991 in Seattle's The Stranger, syndicated worldwide, known for the 'Hey Faggot' opener, coinages like pegging and monogamish, and the Savage Lovecast podcast.
Savannah Gankiewicz
Savannah Mari Gankiewicz (born 1995) is an American pageant titleholder, Miss Hawaii USA 2023 and Miss USA 2023 by succession after Noelia Voigt's May 2024 resignation; fifth Hawaiian Miss USA, first from Maui in over 20 years.
Savannah Sellers
Savannah Sellers (born 1995) is an American NBC News anchor and correspondent, co-anchor of Morning News NOW and co-host of Stay Tuned, NBC's Snapchat show; Emmy and 2022 Gracie Award winner, CU Boulder journalism graduate, Paris 2024 and Milan Cortina Olympics correspondent.
Save the Children
Save the Children, also called the Save the Children Fund, is an international charity founded in London in 1919 that protects children in more than 100 countries.
Sayyid (سيد)
Sayyid (السيد, plural sādāt), Arabic honorific 'master' for descendants of Prophet Muhammad through Fāṭima and ʿAlī; also called sharīf in some regions; covers etymology, genealogy, Ottoman privileges, dynasties, and the 1901 India census figure.
Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms
The Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) is a clinician-rated interview scale measuring negative symptoms like blunted affect, poverty of speech, and loss of motivation in schizophrenia.