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  • adjective Between clans.

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ clan

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Examples

  • Nearly a million people, including displaced civilians, face food shortages in Somalia, a shattered African nation that is struggling to emerge from 14 years of interclan fighting, the United Nations says

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: One million Somalis face food shortage 2005

  • He had drawn considerable attention not only for his military prowess, demonstrated in the usual interclan battles, but also for a wiliness not usually attributed to mid-status chiefs who specialized in combat.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • Such intervillage or interclan combat was permitted under the laws that governed internal social compacts.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • He had drawn considerable attention not only for his military prowess, demonstrated in the usual interclan battles, but also for a wiliness not usually attributed to mid-status chiefs who specialized in combat.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • Such intervillage or interclan combat was permitted under the laws that governed internal social compacts.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • "Bored me into a stupor with a great long saga about the interclan trade wars and took advantage of me while I was unable to defend myself," Maarni laughed, patting her lifemate's arm affectionately.

    Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001

  • "Bored me into a stupor with a great long saga about the interclan trade wars and took advantage of me while I was unable to defend myself," Maarni laughed, patting her lifemate's arm affectionately.

    Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001

  • In Somalia, now in its seventh year without a central government, four people died in continuing interclan violence in the town of Sakow on the night of November 28.

    DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000

  • Most of them died from war: civil wars, international, intertribal, and interclan wars.

    The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

  • Most of them died from war: civil wars, international, intertribal, and interclan wars.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

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