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Recent Examples of mixed marriage
Of the educationally mixed marriages, the majority—62 percent—were hypogamous, up from 39 percent in 1980.
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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
Edgar’s absorbing historical study of intermarriage is based on policy documents, Soviet ethnographic research, and over 80 in-depth interviews with members of mixed marriages and their adult children in the ethnically diverse Soviet republic of Kazakhstan and less diverse Tajikistan.
—Robert Hornsby, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
With so many men dead or enslaved, Native women married men outside their group—often African-Americans—and then redefined the families of mixed marriages as matrilineal in order to preserve collective claims to land.
—Philip Deloria, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
On the subject of mixed marriages like theirs, James Carville, one half of another famously bipartisan couple, liked to say that such unions are feasible, but perhaps not advisable.
—New York Times, 11 July 2018
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
Edgar’s absorbing historical study of intermarriage is based on policy documents, Soviet ethnographic research, and over 80 in-depth interviews with members of mixed marriages and their adult children in the ethnically diverse Soviet republic of Kazakhstan and less diverse Tajikistan.
—Robert Hornsby, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
With so many men dead or enslaved, Native women married men outside their group—often African-Americans—and then redefined the families of mixed marriages as matrilineal in order to preserve collective claims to land.
—Philip Deloria, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
On the subject of mixed marriages like theirs, James Carville, one half of another famously bipartisan couple, liked to say that such unions are feasible, but perhaps not advisable.
—New York Times, 11 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mixed marriage
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Their son, Monty, was born in 2017, with each having one child from their previous marriages.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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Off-screen, many of them have been in marriages for almost the same amount of time.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
People.com,
9 July 2025
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The Conservative movement used to forbid its rabbis from even attending intermarriage ceremonies.—
Asaf Elia-Shalev,
Sun Sentinel,
7 July 2025
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They were often connected to Indigenous people—either through supposedly ubiquitous (but actually rare) intermarriage or as a group similarly tied to nature.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
5 June 2025
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On top of that, Hollywood’s Hays Code prohibited miscegenation — no interracial romance whatsoever.—
Carolyn Kellogg,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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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
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In defeat, the matrimony between manager, club and city had never been more visible.—
Simon Hughes,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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This cowboy is getting hitched and has the hat to match in matrimony.—
Teaghan Skulszki,
Outside Online,
12 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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By 1982, schools in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Ohio had challenged the book for not promoting abstinence or monogamy.—
Shannon Carlin,
Time,
8 May 2025
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Aging, parenting adult children, long-term monogamy and stresses on old friendships are examined over lengthy dinner-table scenes.—
Mikey O'Connell,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Mixed marriage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mixed%20marriage. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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