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Recent Examples of intermarriage
By the Eighties, almost half of all Jews were marrying non-Jews, and worry over the long-term implications of intermarriage had become its own cottage industry.
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Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
The debate over intermarriage in Conservative Judaism has persisted for decades, reflecting the movement’s dual commitments to tradition and change.
—Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
But Indigenous scholars agree that all tribal nations in the U.S. will soon have to address blood quantum to deal with declining enrollment, namely because of intermarriage either between tribes or between tribal and non-tribal people.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Linguistic talent and intermarriage are the major strategies for attaining influence among the colonizers even when those in charge promote racial distinctions to inhibit mingling.
—Charles S. Maier, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2010
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Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
The debate over intermarriage in Conservative Judaism has persisted for decades, reflecting the movement’s dual commitments to tradition and change.
—Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
But Indigenous scholars agree that all tribal nations in the U.S. will soon have to address blood quantum to deal with declining enrollment, namely because of intermarriage either between tribes or between tribal and non-tribal people.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Linguistic talent and intermarriage are the major strategies for attaining influence among the colonizers even when those in charge promote racial distinctions to inhibit mingling.
—Charles S. Maier, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2010
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intermarriage
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Nancy Buirski's documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, the couple who fought Virginia's Jim Crow-era miscegenation laws, eschews narration, instead using archival footage and interviews with those involved to tell a quiet but forceful story that is both a cry for justice and a romance.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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He’s openly disavowed miscegenation, and castigated Vice President JD Vance for marrying an Indian woman and fathering mixed-race children.—
George Michael,
The Conversation,
19 Dec. 2025
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At the time, this film was marketed as a kind of modern-day comedy of remarriage, in which on-the-outs small-town husband-and-wife Dennis Quaid and Roberts got back together.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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The Princess Royal married her second and current husband, Sir Timothy Laurence, at Crathie Kirk in December 1992, as the Church of England did not allow for remarriage after divorce at the time.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Several marriages occurred from March 2024 until Feb. 8, 2025, when court documents say Zumba tried to recruit someone still in the Navy.—
Cara Tabachnick,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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The longtime Style section reporter defied gender stereotypes, covering current affairs and writing books about the Vietnam War and power-couple marriages.—
Washington Post staff,
Washington Post,
3 Feb. 2026
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The three couples — who have 179 years of matrimony between them — soon got together to see the dress, all those years later, and to pass it into Vanderpool's possession for the day her granddaughter gets married.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
18 Dec. 2025
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Isn’t the pledge of matrimony to be in a state of near-perpetual togetherness?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Dec. 2025
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Even Kate Sharma, despite being born out of wedlock, was still Lady Kate and publicly acknowledged by her father and stepmother.—
Fleurine Tideman,
Glamour,
2 Feb. 2026
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American cities went into decay, rising crime rates, rising divorce rates, more kids born out of wedlock.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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“Intermarriage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intermarriage. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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