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Recent Examples of intermarriage
The debate over intermarriage in Conservative Judaism has persisted for decades, reflecting the movement’s dual commitments to tradition and change.
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Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
The Druze, an Arab sect of roughly one million people, practice an offshoot of Islam which permits no converts – either to or from the religion – and no intermarriage.
—Eyad Kourdi, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
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
Rather, advocates of immigration should focus on telling conservative whites positive, true stories of intermarriage and voluntary assimilation—stories that reduce the appeal of the populist right.
—Eric Kaufmann, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2018
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Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
The Druze, an Arab sect of roughly one million people, practice an offshoot of Islam which permits no converts – either to or from the religion – and no intermarriage.
—Eyad Kourdi, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
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
Rather, advocates of immigration should focus on telling conservative whites positive, true stories of intermarriage and voluntary assimilation—stories that reduce the appeal of the populist right.
—Eric Kaufmann, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intermarriage
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The taboo of miscegenation makes up the body of the pagan cynocephalus, wherein religious difference is figured as racial difference, and, remarkably, as species difference (or crisis).—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
28 Aug. 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 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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To me, jobs in this industry feel like a bunch of little marriages.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
25 Aug. 2025
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The notion of destroying marriages and undoing family relationships would be extremely difficult for the Court to justify.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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Shame on you, Murder Bride, for giving anyone pause about entering the holy state of matrimony.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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The stock rose more than 3% in the session, presumably on a potential influx of Swifties looking for unique rings to mark their matrimony.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
26 Aug. 2025
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My knee baby, Ivy, was twenty and studying music over at Ole Miss, and Manny was going into his senior year, set to be salutatorian—all with no children out of wedlock, thank you, Jesus.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Aug. 2025
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Marriages are a strong predictor of births in China, where few children are born out of wedlock—prompting concern over the long-term economic impacts as the birth rate trends downward.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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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 12 Sep. 2025.
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