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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,
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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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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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Jacob rides a horse into the city overnight for the miscegenation trial of Yellowstone foreman Zane and his wife, which has yet to get underway when the episode ends.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2025
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While Swift’s social media silence and retreat from her famous friend group has only fueled the rumor mill, those in the know suggest this is all about self-preservation, not just relationship drama.—
Jenzia Burgos,
StyleCaster,
21 Mar. 2025
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Schwartz had Carter and two other children from his previous relationships.—
Peter Van Sant,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2025
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The Sister Wives star, 52, chronicles her journey within and away from Mormonism and polygamy in Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family and Finding Freedom, set to debut in September 2025.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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The Brown family were members of the Apostolic United Brethren, a fundamentalist Mormon group that practices polygamy.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
4 Feb. 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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For generations, anthropologists have argued whether humans are evolved for monogamy or some other mating system, such as polygyny, polyandry or promiscuity.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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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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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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Benefits — other than the merchandise discounts — applied to both former commissioners and eligible family members, including spouses or civil union partners and dependent children up to age 21.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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The 2014 act went further than the original laws by banning marriages and civil unions, the operation of gay organizations and social clubs, public expressions of LGBTQ+ identity and advocacy of LGBTQ+ rights.—
Damisola Sulaiman,
The Dial,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Cohabitation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cohabitation. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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