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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.
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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
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
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The notion of destroying marriages and undoing family relationships would be extremely difficult for the Court to justify.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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Subsequently, Pope Francis granted SSPX priests a slow trickle of faculties, such as the ability to officiate marriages or perform the sacrament of absolution in limited circumstances.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
14 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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On top of that, Hollywood’s Hays Code prohibited miscegenation — no interracial romance whatsoever.—
Carolyn Kellogg,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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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
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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
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In defeat, the matrimony between manager, club and city had never been more visible.—
Simon Hughes,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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Commitment, monogamy and trust have often been framed as mechanisms to preserve sameness and predictability — promising a kind of order that keeps chaos at bay.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 July 2025
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Global monogamy is overrated, and there’s something to be said for dating around.—
Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
3 July 2025
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“Mixed marriage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mixed%20marriage. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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