Recent Examples on the WebWatching Santosh learn the ropes of her local police station is amusing at first, but Goswami sells its increasing complications through silent reaction shots as her character becomes slowly absorbed by this power structure, its in-group language, its secrets and its casual corruption.—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 May 2024 With so little feedback from outside, the views that prevail in-group are typically the views that are stated the most confidently by the EA with higher status.—Leif Wenar, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024 The Nazi movement was a chaotic mess of struggling in-groups who feared and despised one another.—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024 And so there’s a lot of forces in the world today, in politics, that rely on these in-group biases.—Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024 And while grooming between in-group and out-group members typically had an immediate reciprocal benefit—the groomer typically got groomed in return—food sharing appeared to be more selfless.—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2023 For once, statisticians are the in-group, and longtime fans are the outsiders.—Camilo Fonseca, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023 Cliché and niche obscurity, the Scylla and Charybdis of in-group commentary, lie to either side of the role.—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023 Instead of promoting jingoism and xenophobia, leaders should appeal to people’s innate in-group tendencies in ways that incentivize cooperation, accountability, and care for one’s fellow humans.—Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
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