How to Use intermarriage in a Sentence

intermarriage

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  • To what extent was the gene pool shaped by intermarriage with non-Jews?
    — Shai Carmi and David Reich, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The intermarriage rates for white and Black people have roughly tripled since 1980.
    — David Brooks, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • Among adult children of intermarriage, the study found that younger adults are more likely to be Jewish than older adults.
    — Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 11 May 2021
  • Clark’s red-haired son was just an ordinary man to the Nez Perce, who were accustomed to intermarriage.
    — Scott Herhold, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2017
  • The topic of intermarriage came up during the briefing.
    — Marcy Oster, sun-sentinel.com, 9 July 2019
  • The Supreme Court didn’t overturn all laws against intermarriage until 1967.
    — Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Of course, the main caveat is that intermarriage has been very common between neighboring groups.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2010
  • One of Maduagwu’s goals is to end the taboo of intermarriage, which will prove challenging.
    — Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
  • I was surprised at the number of people polled still nervous about intermarriage.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 23 May 2017
  • This social gap has been narrowing for decades, and intermarriage has, in any case, softened the ethnic divide.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • Because of the intermarriages that's occurred over the decades, there's an extremely high incidence of the disease up to 1,000 times the normal incidence of the disease.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 June 2017
  • And there has been past genealogical work which documents the intermarriage between white men at the Cape and non-European women in the early years of the colony.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2013
  • But the Doukhobor way of life has been buffeted by intermarriage, the allure of city life and a younger generation drawn more to TikTok than Tolstoy.
    — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 4 June 2023
  • The demographic groups with the highest rates of intermarriage?
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • He was publicly opposed to racial intermarriage or to the concept of black officeholders.
    — The Washington Post, 16 June 2020
  • From the beginning, intermarriage between white and Native peoples was connected to the fur trade.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Later, there was intermarriage with people whose DNA was similar to others in Africa.
    — The Conversation, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Forty-nine percent of Democrats and independents who lean toward Democrats say increasing of intermarriage is a good thing.
    — Jerry Large, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
  • All the same, his culinary approach to food decolonization is an intermarriage of foods.
    — James Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Aug. 2021
  • And Fiddler on the Roof is really a musical about intermarriage.
    — Christopher Shea, Vox, 25 May 2018
  • Latinos have a high intermarriage rate—close to fifty per cent for the college educated—and twenty per cent of U.S.-born Latinos have a non-Hispanic white parent.
    — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Around the same time, the state began advocating intermarriage between Han Chinese and Uyghur people.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Ethnicities also get a little cloudy due to migrations, such as that of the Sephardic Jews, and intermarriage between groups, such as in Mexico.
    — Wendy Fawthrop, Orange County Register, 3 May 2017
  • This in a period in the United States where the absolute number of people of mixed origin is increasing rapidly due to intermarriage.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2011
  • Among those trends is an increasing intermarriage rate and a decline in the reproduction rate of Jewish couples, which is part of the broader drop in birthrate throughout Europe in recent decades.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • In other words, the group estimates aren't being shifted by one or two highly admixed Indians, which would be a good tell as to recent intermarriage.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2011
  • The nastiness of such medieval scheming, and the particular perversity of the Targaryen dynasty (which is fond of intermarriage), means that the morality of House of the Dragon is as flat as a pancake.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Early Anglo-Saxon culture was a mixing pot of ideas, intermarriage and movement.
    — Duncan Sayer, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2022
  • But Chabon's views on intermarriage, according to Boyden, will ensure the opposite.
    — Eliana Rudee, Jewish Journal, 6 June 2018
  • What clearly animates Tamkin is the debate over intermarriage.
    — Jane Eisner, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022

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