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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mongrelize .
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Examples
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Mexicans in both Mexico or the USA a "mongrelized" nation and Native Americans being portrayed a "dying" race in racial scientific journals.
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Now there's a chance this inherently mongrelized art form may be ready for revival.
Baroque and the Bard: Mash-Up at the Met David Mermelstein 2011
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In the mongrelized USA, Duke could say whatever he wanted, but here in the cradle of National Socialist romance and idealism, there was no First Amendment.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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The irony, of course, is that the English, thoroughly mongrelized as they are, have not a clue what their own national identity might be.
Blue, White, Red 2008
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The January Dancer by Michael Flynn - Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized interstellar human civilization the artifact might save or destroy.
Books in the Mail (W/E 08/16/2008) RobB 2008
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The January Dancer by Michael Flynn - Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized interstellar human civilization the artifact might save or destroy.
Archive 2008-08-01 RobB 2008
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When the Americans did not give up but rather kept building more planes and tanks, the Japanese responded with massive suicidal attacks, believing that Americans, selfish and mongrelized, could not stand up to such a show of national unity and self-sacrifice.
Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006
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In fact, according to some European-authored racial taxonomies–the one I am thinking of is either by Richard Wagner or one of his relatives–Jews were even more “mongrelized” than Blacks.
The Social Construction of Our Ever Changing Racial Categories 2006
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When the Americans did not give up but rather kept building more planes and tanks, the Japanese responded with massive suicidal attacks, believing that Americans, selfish and mongrelized, could not stand up to such a show of national unity and self-sacrifice.
Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006
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A downtown babel of shop signs and streets, mongrelized, polyglot, a ferment without
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