miscegenation

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Recent Examples of miscegenation On top of that, Hollywood’s Hays Code prohibited miscegenation — no interracial romance whatsoever. Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2025 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 In 1924, he was tapped for the lead in Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings, a controversial play about miscegenation. Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for miscegenation
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Noun
  • Among the likely candidates, though, two songs stand out as marriages of craft and commerce.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • But intermarriage could not protect the indigenous peoples, and through wars, disease, and famine their numbers continued to wane.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Not only Israel but the United States would protect Jews against another Shoah. Assimilation, intermarriage, the move away from Jewish neighborhoods, and the weakening of religious ties all made the fate of Israel and the memory of the Holocaust more central to secular Jewish identity.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025

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“Miscegenation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscegenation. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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