admixture

• “Among the 30 percent who do, the black admixture is around 2.3 percent, which would be like having about three black ancestors out of those 128.”

  Sioux Falls Gets Burundians

• “They are called by the Greek historians Eastern Turks; like the Madjars and other Hunnish or Finnish tribes, they had probably received some admixture from the genuine Turkish races.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “Among self-identified whites in Shriver’s sample, the average black admixture is only 0.7 percent.”

  Sioux Falls Gets Burundians

• “Suppose a man of great birth and fortune, who in his youth had been an enthusiastic friend of Lord Byron and a jocund companion of George IV.; who had in him an immense degree of lofty romantic sentiment with an equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism, but who, on account of that admixture, which is so rare, kept”

  The Parisians — Complete

• “For me, the most shocking and astonishing thing that's been revealed was my admixture - your admixture is your percentage of African ancestry, Native American ancestry and European ancestry.”

  NPR Topics: News

• “The 2007 report by the OECD and International Transport Forum, points out that government biofuels subsidies aimed at boosting output (like those in place in the U.S.) or, by extension, those mandating a minimum mixture requirements - known as admixture - (like those in the E.U.) could encourage cheaper shortcuts, thus promoting relatively dirty biofuels.”

  Free Internet Press

• “admixture" - a mixture (like menthol and vaseline) "vapor rub" - menthol-scented Vaseline.”

  truckeratlas Diary Entry

• “Suppose a man of great birth and fortune, who in his youth had been an enthusiastic friend of Lord Byron and a jocund companion of George IV.; who had in him an immense degree of lofty romantic sentiment with an equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism, but who, on account of that admixture, which is so rare, kept a high rank in either of the two societies into which, speaking broadly, civilized life divides itself, -- the romantic and the cynical.”

  The Parisians — Volume 03

• “The somewhat apparent homogenity among sud-saharan Africans is more a product of "admixture" than of simple homogeneity.”

  Races as folk taxonomies without biological basis.

• “And if this admixture (an "admixture" is the scientific equivalent of a "colorway") of vehicles weren't volatile enough, the element of religion should be sufficient to cause it to explode with the force of a thousand R-Syses (or R-Si).”

  Circling the Pedicabs: Cycling and the New Frontier

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