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  • noun Plural form of fraternity.

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Examples

  • The stereotype of fraternities is that its members are "born better" and they have abused this (undeserved) status, but expelling these students and kicking them off campus is almost responding in kind, saying that they're born worse, incapable of seeing the error of their ways or becoming an actively positive force in the community.

    Jeff A. Katz: We're All DKEs Sometimes... Jeff A. Katz 2010

  • The stereotype of fraternities is that its members are "born better" and they have abused this (undeserved) status, but expelling these students and kicking them off campus is almost responding in kind, saying that they're born worse, incapable of seeing the error of their ways or becoming an actively positive force in the community.

    Jeff A. Katz: We're All DKEs Sometimes... Jeff A. Katz 2010

  • The stereotype of fraternities is that its members are "born better" and they have abused this (undeserved) status, but expelling these students and kicking them off campus is almost responding in kind, saying that they're born worse, incapable of seeing the error of their ways or becoming an actively positive force in the community.

    Jeff A. Katz: We're All DKEs Sometimes... Jeff A. Katz 2010

  • The exclusion of Jews from college fraternities is another case in point.

    The Jews in America 2007

  • The exclusion of Jews from college fraternities is another case in point.

    The Jews in America 2007

  • The one thing about fraternities is that they take on missions or causes that may be all right in themselves but you have to sign onto them in advance.

    Think Progress » What the New York Times Won’t Tell You About Alito’s ‘Apolitical’ Supporter 2005

  • I compare this to the widespread hazing still going on in fraternities on American campuses today, much of which is probably worse.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Conservatives and Torture: 2004

  • Steinbrenner doesn't believe in fraternities, especially those costing him $180 million.

    USATODAY.com - Steinbrenner rips Yanks, praises Nets, Devils 2003

  • The exclusion of Jews from college fraternities is another case in point, in many frank interviews with fraternity men we have received the impression that they do, not want Jewish boys because of their bad manners.

    The Social Disability of the Jew 1969

  • The exclusion of Jews from college fraternities is another case in point, in many frank interviews with fraternity men we have received the impression that they do, not want Jewish boys because of their bad manners.

    The Social Disability of the Jew 1908

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