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  • verb Present participle of intermarry.

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Examples

  • After 160 years of intermarrying without any particular reason to have criollo or indiginous people as favored mates, they almost certainly have a lot of both in their ancestry.

    Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Diverse Team of Dudes 2009

  • I mean, even some of my ancestors from Germany and Southern England who arrived in, say Rowan County, North Carolina, a Scot stronghald, they promptly began intermarrying with Scots, taking on the culture and behavior.

    Great Scots 2009

  • Latinos are everywhere in this country; we are present and we are intermarrying at a faster pace than other non-white groups.

    Maria Hinojosa: The Latino List: 'We Are America' Maria Hinojosa 2011

  • It tells of the long centuries Tutsi and Hutu lived together, intermarrying and raising their children, until the coming of the Belgians in the 1800s.

    Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters "the horror" in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palestine/Israel Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

  • The generations of mankind did not evolve from the intermarrying of brothers and sisters, as some propose.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1147 2009

  • I mean, even some of my ancestors from Germany and Southern England who arrived in, say Rowan County, North Carolina, a Scot stronghald, they promptly began intermarrying with Scots, taking on the culture and behavior.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Latinos are everywhere in this country; we are present and we are intermarrying at a faster pace than other non-white groups.

    Maria Hinojosa: The Latino List: 'We Are America' Maria Hinojosa 2011

  • But their children made it up by intermarrying and dividing the island between them.

    Good-bye, Jack 2010

  • It tells of the long centuries Tutsi and Hutu lived together, intermarrying and raising their children, until the coming of the Belgians in the 1800s.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

  • She felt that there were cultural and language barriers that kept Seattle Ashkenazim and Sephardim from socializing and intermarrying in Seattle.

    Personal Information for Fortuna Calvo-Roth 2010

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