mixed marriage

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Recent Examples of mixed marriage 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 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
  • In fact, research shows that people in more committed romantic relationship stages (or marriages) have fewer friends and are less likely to value the opinions of the ones who remain in their lives.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Anderson's divorce settlement with Burt Reynolds Of Anderson's four marriages, her union with Burt Reynolds from 1988 to 1994 was likely the most famous.
    Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The first is primarily concerned with barring intermarriage and preventing the integration of Arabs and Jews, whether in schools or on soccer pitches; many support the soccer team Beitar Jerusalem, which remains the only team in the Israeli Premier League never to have fielded an Arab.
    Mitch Ginsburg, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2016
  • The Conservative movement used to forbid its rabbis from even attending intermarriage ceremonies.
    Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • While legacy agencies might still operate like Victorian-era matchmakers, arranging introductions between clients and journalists with no promises of matrimony, Spynn functions more like a Las Vegas wedding chapel — quick, certain and surprisingly effective.
    Ascend Agency, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2025
  • In defeat, the matrimony between manager, club and city had never been more visible.
    Simon Hughes, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Marriages are a strong predictor of births in China, where few children are born out of wedlock—prompting concern over the long-term economic impacts as the birth rate trends downward.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
  • An increase in marriages is a strong indicator of a forthcoming rise in births, as childbirth outside of wedlock is uncommon in South Korea.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Global monogamy is overrated, and there’s something to be said for dating around.
    Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 3 July 2025
  • By 1982, schools in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Ohio had challenged the book for not promoting abstinence or monogamy.
    Shannon Carlin, Time, 8 May 2025

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“Mixed marriage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mixed%20marriage. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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