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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
But Indigenous scholars agree that all tribal nations in the U.S. will soon have to address blood quantum to deal with declining enrollment, namely because of intermarriage either between tribes or between tribal and non-tribal people.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Despite historical skepticism in American Judaism around intermarriage, the idea that an intermarried family like the Hunters can live a robust Jewish life is gaining broader acceptance.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 25 Dec. 2024
Linguistic talent and intermarriage are the major strategies for attaining influence among the colonizers even when those in charge promote racial distinctions to inhibit mingling.
—Charles S. Maier, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2010
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Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
But Indigenous scholars agree that all tribal nations in the U.S. will soon have to address blood quantum to deal with declining enrollment, namely because of intermarriage either between tribes or between tribal and non-tribal people.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Despite historical skepticism in American Judaism around intermarriage, the idea that an intermarried family like the Hunters can live a robust Jewish life is gaining broader acceptance.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 25 Dec. 2024
Linguistic talent and intermarriage are the major strategies for attaining influence among the colonizers even when those in charge promote racial distinctions to inhibit mingling.
—Charles S. Maier, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2010
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intermarriage
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Nancy Buirski's documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, the couple who fought Virginia's Jim Crow-era miscegenation laws, eschews narration, instead using archival footage and interviews with those involved to tell a quiet but forceful story that is both a cry for justice and a romance.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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He’s openly disavowed miscegenation, and castigated Vice President JD Vance for marrying an Indian woman and fathering mixed-race children.—
George Michael,
The Conversation,
19 Dec. 2025
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Things were relatively peaceful until my remarriage, which sent my ex over the edge.—
Abigail Van Buren,
Boston Herald,
15 Mar. 2026
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At the time, this film was marketed as a kind of modern-day comedy of remarriage, in which on-the-outs small-town husband-and-wife Dennis Quaid and Roberts got back together.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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Ozzy Osbourne is survived by six children from two marriages.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
12 Mar. 2026
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Love Is Blind has produced several marriages since premiering in 2020.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Mar. 2026
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Lucy works as a high-end matchmaker for New York’s elite while cooly observing that only a very wealthy husband will ever (to paraphrase Elizabeth Bennet) induce her into matrimony.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
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The three couples — who have 179 years of matrimony between them — soon got together to see the dress, all those years later, and to pass it into Vanderpool's possession for the day her granddaughter gets married.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
18 Dec. 2025
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Why would a woman struggling with finding housing have four kids out of wedlock?—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
22 Mar. 2026
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Acknowledging that most civil law now permits legitimization after the fact, some jurisdictions still discriminate against a child born out of wedlock.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
7 Mar. 2026
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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 2 Apr. 2026.
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