mixed marriage

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Recent Examples of mixed marriage 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 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 With so many men dead or enslaved, Native women married men outside their group—often African-Americans—and then redefined the families of mixed marriages as matrilineal in order to preserve collective claims to land. Philip Deloria, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019 On the subject of mixed marriages like theirs, James Carville, one half of another famously bipartisan couple, liked to say that such unions are feasible, but perhaps not advisable. New York Times, 11 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mixed marriage
Noun
  • Cruise’s three high-profile marriages — to Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, and Katie Holmes — all ended in divorce.
    Skyler Trepel, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Other Republican lawmakers said their opposition to the marriages was a moral issue.
    Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • As the daughter of King Henry VIII, whose six marriages reshaped the monarchy and led to England’s break from the Catholic Church, Elizabeth may have been wary of matrimony.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Whether adorable, touching, or surprising, these magical moments of matrimony are memories to last a lifetime for the brides and everyone who witnessed them.
    Ronnie Li, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In episode four, the Sea Snake refuses to show him any affection, and blocks his rise up the ranks, simply because he was born out of wedlock.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Alfonsina, who fell pregnant by a colleague and had the child outside of wedlock.
    Teresa Grøtan (Tr. Caroline Waight), The Dial, 12 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • And this makes sense because monogamy is a potent equalizer between the sexes.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • 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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“Mixed marriage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mixed%20marriage. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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