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- noun Plural form of
intermarriage .
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Examples
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“These declines in intermarriages are a significant departure from past trends,” said Zhenchao Qian, co-author of the study and professor of sociology at Ohio State University.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How to Turn Good News into Bad News 2010
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Someday, conversion in intermarriages may become acceptable.
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Someday, conversion in intermarriages may become acceptable.
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This would suggest that the intermarriages were a matter of choice rather than of necessity.
The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography George D. Wolf
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Many branches of knowledge expanded immensely after the arrival of Adam and Eve and the intermarriages of their children with mankind.
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Moreover, a dense network of intermarriages connected the European kings and queens of smaller countries from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark to Spain, Belgium, Romania, and Bulgaria.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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As one of Khadr's lawyers, Major Matthew Schwartz, pointed out during cross-examination this morning, Sennels wrote an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron in July in which he called the Koran "a criminal book that forces people to do criminal things," and said that because Turkey is a mostly Muslim country, "25-30% of marriages in Turkey are intermarriages" and "the result of inbreeding."
Daphne Eviatar: Google Searches Undermine Government's Star Witness in Khadr Case Daphne Eviatar 2010
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Although we fight, we have a lot in common with this community -- there are intermarriages, we are in marginalized areas, we have the same religion, Elea said.
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As one of Khadr's lawyers, Major Matthew Schwartz, pointed out during cross-examination this morning, Sennels wrote an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron in July in which he called the Koran "a criminal book that forces people to do criminal things," and said that because Turkey is a mostly Muslim country, "25-30% of marriages in Turkey are intermarriages" and "the result of inbreeding."
Daphne Eviatar: Google Searches Undermine Government's Star Witness in Khadr Case Daphne Eviatar 2010
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Indeed, intermarriages represented only 4% of all existing marriages 25 years ago.
More Marriages Cross Race, Ethnicity Lines Miriam Jordan 2012
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