Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To subject to outbreeding.
- intransitive verb To engage in outbreeding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To breed outside the limits of the family, variety, race, or tribe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
breed more successfully than.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But there is no political party on earth that is big enough for me and people who believe that liberalism's great hope is to create policies that encourage women to have 14 children so we can "outbreed" the competition and make sure the wrong people don't come in and ruin the place.
Hullabaloo 2006
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That does not prevent some serious scholars, like political scientist Eric Kaufmann,3 from making the opposite case that religious fundamentalists will outbreed the rest of us.
Nigel Barber: When Will Atheism Prevail Over Religion? Nigel Barber 2011
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That does not prevent some serious scholars, like political scientist Eric Kaufmann,3 from making the opposite case that religious fundamentalists will outbreed the rest of us.
Nigel Barber: When Will Atheism Prevail Over Religion? Nigel Barber 2011
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That does not prevent some serious scholars, like political scientist Eric Kaufmann,3 from making the opposite case that religious fundamentalists will outbreed the rest of us.
Nigel Barber: When Will Atheism Prevail Over Religion? Nigel Barber 2011
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If there's a genetic component to religious belief, the pro-religion variant is mathematically bound to win out, a study shows, if believers continue to outbreed nonbelievers.
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That does not prevent some serious scholars, like political scientist Eric Kaufmann,3 from making the opposite case that religious fundamentalists will outbreed the rest of us.
Nigel Barber: When Will Atheism Prevail Over Religion? Nigel Barber 2011
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Is the only way to defeat these ideologies to outbreed them?
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If they manage to convince enough of us (I doubt it) to see the world through their eyes, or if they outbreed us, and thus succeed in beating us through the ballot box, tough titty, it would be our fault.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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In long run, fundamentalists will outbreed everybody else.
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But outbreed too far and other difficulties arise as genetic incompatibilities between the parents make reproduction harder.
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