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  • adjective between ethnic groups, or their members

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Examples

  • For outsiders looking in, last week's carnage was just one more senseless episode of "interethnic" violence.

    'Tottering On The Edge' 2007

  • I noted the use of "interethnic" in this article several times, which seems to offer another way of naming the differences between people of different backgrounds who marry outside the set of individuals their families might have expected them to choose from.

    Wired Campus 2010

  • I noted the use of "interethnic" in this article several times, which seems to offer another way of naming the differences between people of different backgrounds who marry outside the set of individuals their families might have expected them to choose from.

    Wired Campus 2010

  • I noted the use of "interethnic" in this article several times, which seems to offer another way of naming the differences between people of different backgrounds who marry outside the set of individuals their families might have expected them to choose from.

    Wired Campus 2010

  • I noted the use of "interethnic" in this article several times, which seems to offer another way of naming the differences between people of different backgrounds who marry outside the set of individuals their families might have expected them to choose from.

    Wired Campus 2010

  • Paul’s international church built on existing cosmopolitan values of interethnic tolerance and amity, but in offering its international networking services to congregants, the church went beyond those values; a kind of interethnic love was the core value that held the system together.

    One World, Under God 2009

  • Paul’s international church built on existing cosmopolitan values of interethnic tolerance and amity, but in offering its international networking services to congregants, the church went beyond those values; a kind of interethnic love was the core value that held the system together.

    One World, Under God 2009

  • In addition, the completely free choice of congregations within Protestantism will likely limit the amount of interethnic mixing at the congregational level.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Some Uighurs said they were concerned about revenge attacks by Han Chinese, as happened in 2009 when almost 200 people were killed in interethnic riots in the regional capital, Urumqi.

    Beijing Points to Pakistan After Ethnic Violence Jason Dean 2011

  • I knew next to nothing about Othello before this, and the single point that jumped out at me, given my peculiar interests, is that apart from the first act the whole thing is set on Cyprus, a place where interethnic fault lines remain sufficiently sharply drawn to keep me in business.

    Winters Tale follow-up elmyra 2009

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