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- noun Plural form of
outgroup .
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Examples
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Any approach to terrorism which lacks a mechanism for dealing with "outgroups" will not be successful.
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Each society has to engage the "outgroups" by itself.
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Relationships among all non-sauropodomorph taxa (here collapsed into a collective 'outgroups') are identical to those recovered in their respective analyses. [planned for page width] doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0009789.g012
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010
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In other words, just as we found that an increase in religious bridging corresponds to warmer feelings toward religious outgroups, we might expect more bridging to lead to the full acceptance of an outgroup—those without a religion—into the national community.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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An intense apprehension of outgroups was a central part of Anders Breivik's vision of "native Europeans ... fighting against the Islamisation of their lands."
Roy Speckhardt: Humanism Can Help Norway And The World Roy Speckhardt 2011
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A characteristic present in both the outgroups and the ancestors is called a plesiomorphy (meaning "close form," as in close to the root ancestor; also called an ancestral state).
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And the consequence of that decades-long process has been the emergence of a Republican party that is, to a remarkable degree, built on viscera -- on appeals to anger and resentment, and a deeply-felt conviction that America is breaking down irretrievably and that the way to stop that process is to demonize and marginalize outgroups deemed responsible for that breakdown.
Jonathan Weiler: From Soup to Nuts: The Authoritarian Transformation of the Republican Party Jonathan Weiler 2010
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So the monophylic clade of metazoa contains only multicellular liveforms, this also defines the mentioned outgroups of taxa from protozoa and prokaryota.
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And the consequence of that decades-long process has been the emergence of a Republican party that is, to a remarkable degree, built on viscera -- on appeals to anger and resentment, and a deeply-felt conviction that America is breaking down irretrievably and that the way to stop that process is to demonize and marginalize outgroups deemed responsible for that breakdown.
Jonathan Weiler: From Soup to Nuts: The Authoritarian Transformation of the Republican Party Jonathan Weiler 2010
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An intense apprehension of outgroups was a central part of Anders Breivik's vision of "native Europeans ... fighting against the Islamisation of their lands."
Roy Speckhardt: Humanism Can Help Norway And The World Roy Speckhardt 2011
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