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Noun
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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
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Their mutual groping, filmed in blue light, could be the most frank miscegenation ever put on film.—
Armond White,
National Review,
30 Oct. 2024
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In practice, this amounted to a bizarre, Stasi-like effort to micromanage the dating scene in a town of 100,000—and to stamp out religious miscegenation at first flush.—
Mohammad Ali,
WIRED,
14 Apr. 2020
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Bezos and Zuckerberg, with whom Trump previously had contentious relationships, have gone out of their way to get closer to him this time around.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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The crisis of monogamy, the possibility of having more honest, effective relationships, but without judging anyone.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
20 Jan. 2025
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In the recent episode of iHeart’s Rogue Energy podcast, Christine and Janelle Brown discussed their lives after leaving polygamy.—
Liza Esquibias,
People.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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In small towns, men often have multiple partners — both male and female — and polygamy is common.—
Adam Williams,
NPR,
11 Jan. 2025
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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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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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The transatlantic trade in enslaved people, which produced a dearth of men in West Africa, helps explain the comparatively high prevalence of polygyny there now.—
Stephanie H. Murray,
The Atlantic,
26 Sep. 2024
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His son has been married four times and resurrected the long-dead institution of polygyny.—
Tamara Loos,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Dec. 2020
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Not of the bigamy, nor of baby Patricia, born on April 20, 1953, in Brooklyn, and baptized at St. Patrick’s Church in Bay Ridge three months later.—
Sarah Weinman,
Rolling Stone,
1 Dec. 2024
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Answer: Treason, murder, obstruction, theft, smuggling, piracy, mutiny, desertion, bigamy, dueling, accepting the land grant on the Ridge under false pretenses.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
23 July 2024
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Since 2003, the Polish parliament has discussed legalizing civil unions at least five times—but each time, the proposals have foundered for want of government support.—
Marta Figlerowicz,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Aug. 2019
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Mary and Romain entered into a civil union in 2018, and celebrated their nuptials with a wedding ceremony the following year.—
Erin Clements,
Peoplemag,
24 Sep. 2024
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