intermarriage

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Recent Examples of intermarriage In other societies, including those of Latin America, the line between conqueror and conquered has, through language, intermarriage and the exchange of customs and food, been partially effaced. Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025 Image This is not to say that plays may not benefit from an intermarriage with screens. Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 Even as intermarriage rates are increasing across the board, according to the most recent figures from the Pew Research Center, only 12% of Black women marry outside of their race. Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2025 And Viserys coveting Dany was a sadistic example of his own obsolescence; while intermarriage may have been common for House Targaryen decades ago, Viserys clinging to customs of the past was a sign of his own unfitness to rule in the present. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for intermarriage
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Noun
  • On top of that, Hollywood’s Hays Code prohibited miscegenation — no interracial romance whatsoever.
    Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The drama is a subtle exploration of miscegenation, one of the core taboos that the LCO often clamped down on.
    Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Their son, Monty, was born in 2017, with each having one child from their previous marriages.
    Luke Smith, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • Off-screen, many of them have been in marriages for almost the same amount of time.
    Jacqueline Weiss, People.com, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • While legacy agencies might still operate like Victorian-era matchmakers, arranging introductions between clients and journalists with no promises of matrimony, Spynn functions more like a Las Vegas wedding chapel — quick, certain and surprisingly effective.
    Ascend Agency, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2025
  • In defeat, the matrimony between manager, club and city had never been more visible.
    Simon Hughes, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • An increase in marriages is a strong indicator of a forthcoming rise in births, as childbirth outside of wedlock is uncommon in South Korea.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
  • The American-French stepdaughter of Sylvie born out of wedlock, Geneviève is an NYU grad who moved to Paris in Season 4 and got hired at Agence Grateau where Emily gracefully took her under her wing.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Of the educationally mixed marriages, the majority—62 percent—were hypogamous, up from 39 percent in 1980.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
  • At the age of 16, the offspring of mixed marriages had to choose one of their parents’ ethnicities.
    Robert Hornsby, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023

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“Intermarriage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intermarriage. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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