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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
detribalize .
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Examples
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This cluster includes a number of Eurafrican and Mestico groups, as well as 1.2 million detribalized peoples in Nigeria.
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The point is that the people of the Anambra are detribalized, great patriots and open minded.
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Blacks, for the grandchildren of slaves were detribalized, or perhaps more accurately, compressed into a single national tribe of Blackness.
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Though the movement soon after coming to power crushed independent-minded trade unionists, often dubbed as "Trotskyists," many of Angola's relatively detribalized urban workers also looked toward the MPLA.
Inside Angola Smiley, Xan 1983
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Shih Lo had escaped from slavery in China and had risen to be a military leader among detribalized Huns.
A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949
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At a time when probes in the country are yielding great harvests, Pat's name has been singularly unsullied, which confirmed the impression of him as an honest, detribalized Nigerian.
Vanguard johnabayomi 2010
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As a liberal politician, Rimi caught the figure of a detribalized Nigerian, who would rather support a noble cause as against playing an ethnic card.
Thisday Online 2010
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As a liberal politician, Rimi caught the figure of a detribalized Nigerian, who would rather support a noble cause as against playing an ethnic card.
Thisday Online 2010
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He was detribalized, forthright and a strong believer in the rule of law.
Vanguard 2010
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At a time when probes in the country are yielding great harvests, Pat's name has been singularly unsullied, which confirmed the impression of him as an honest, detribalized Nigerian.
Vanguard johnabayomi 2010
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