Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lying between walls.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lying between walls; inclosed by walls.
- adjective Taking place between two different institutions or cities.
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- adjective Between
walls ; enclosed by walls.
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- adjective between two or more institutions etc
Etymologies
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Examples
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After all, white folks are the dominant ones in society and have all of the advantages that have been built up over hundreds of years of racial preference toward whites; so when a group of Native American students name their intermural basketball team "The Fightin 'Whites" in order to point out the stupidity of naming a team "The Fighin 'Reds" white people find it funny and laugh it off because it is not a real threat to whiteness.
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After all, white folks are the dominant ones in society and have all of the advantages that have been built up over hundreds of years of racial preference toward whites; so when a group of Native American students name their intermural basketball team "The Fightin 'Whites" in order to point out the stupidity of naming a team "The Fighin 'Reds" white people find it funny and laugh it off because it is not a real threat to whiteness.
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I would much rather see an intermural fight within the party, then republicans being involved in any event.
Centrist Dems Start Rebelling on Obama's Spending Plans 2010
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I would much rather see an intermural fight within the party, then republicans being involved in any event.
Centrist Dems Start Rebelling on Obama's Spending Plans 2010
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I would much rather see an intermural fight within the party, then republicans being involved in any event.
Centrist Dems Start Rebelling on Obama's Spending Plans 2010
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Not to mention the Illiad (an intermural squabble among the Olympian Gods), the Hundred Years War (is God a Catholic or a Protestant?), the Crusades, and every clash of civilizations from the Bronze Age to the Gunpowder Age.
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I admit that as an academic I hate the emphasis on intermural sports at some of the big Us.
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Otherwise, we'd all be rallying around President Kerry now rather than having these intermural spats.
Clinton Camp: "Karl Rove Is Writing Senator Obama's Talking Points" 2009
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If you're not willing to take a stand on this important theological question, then you're totally not invited to the inevitable intermural bloodletting after the post-election schism.
Dem Pollster Gives Obama Double-Digit Lead In Wisconsin Primary 2009
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There were occasionally some minimal examples, such as sitting together in the campus cafeteria, and there were student groups defined by racial categories but by in large the communities interacted together nearly completely, and there were certainly no examples of things like a “black caucus intermural league” or student groups that significantly seperated their activities from the rest of the social life on campus.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Conflicting Rationales for Affirmative Action in Higher Education: 2007
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