as in marriage
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sexual relations or marital union between people of two different races
laws that once criminalized miscegenation
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Recent Examples of miscegenation
On top of that, Hollywood’s Hays Code prohibited miscegenation — no interracial romance whatsoever.
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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
Their mutual groping, filmed in blue light, could be the most frank miscegenation ever put on film.
—Armond White, National Review, 30 Oct. 2024
In 1924, he was tapped for the lead in Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings, a controversial play about miscegenation.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
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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
Their mutual groping, filmed in blue light, could be the most frank miscegenation ever put on film.
—Armond White, National Review, 30 Oct. 2024
In 1924, he was tapped for the lead in Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings, a controversial play about miscegenation.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscegenation
Noun
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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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So did laws and court rulings that followed — barring Black men from the militia, barring Black adults from juries, barring Black children from learning alongside white children in public schools, and barring racial intermarriage.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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But intermarriage could not protect the indigenous peoples, and through wars, disease, and famine their numbers continued to wane.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Miscegenation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscegenation. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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