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Recent Examples of intermarriage
By the Eighties, almost half of all Jews were marrying non-Jews, and worry over the long-term implications of intermarriage had become its own cottage industry.
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Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
The debate over intermarriage in Conservative Judaism has persisted for decades, reflecting the movement’s dual commitments to tradition and change.
—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
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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Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
The debate over intermarriage in Conservative Judaism has persisted for decades, reflecting the movement’s dual commitments to tradition and change.
—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
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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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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The press, however—fearing backlash to its positive depiction of interracial romance—rewrote the conclusion without Grey’s knowledge or consent, killing off Nophaie and the offending prospect of miscegenation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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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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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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Among the likely candidates, though, two songs stand out as marriages of craft and commerce.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
22 Oct. 2025
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The show, which landed in the Mile High City for its ninth season, came to a dramatic conclusion this week and made history as the first season in the franchise with zero successful marriages.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
22 Oct. 2025
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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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Isn’t the pledge of matrimony to be in a state of near-perpetual togetherness?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Dec. 2025
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Advertisement The two make love out of wedlock and conceive a child, angering Agnes’ adoptive family, though her brother, Joe Alwyn’s Bartholomew, who’d been adopted along with her, stands by her side.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
27 Nov. 2025
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Born out of wedlock to a celebrated general, Hedda’s father has left her with only his opulent, Chekhovian gun collection and a precarious foothold in high society.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
28 Oct. 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 11 Jan. 2026.
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