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- verb Present participle of
mongrelize .
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Examples
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Tucson is the viscid sump toward which all these rough beasts slink, and apocalypse-specifically the end of the white man's reign in the Americas and the triumphant reclamation by Native Americans of their lands-is the crossbred offspring of all of their mongrelizing enterprises.
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White supremacists don't like the way Mexicans tend to assimilate and become voters, usually Democrats (although I don't have the figures on that at hand), not to speak of mongrelizing the sacred purity of the Aryan blood.
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White supremacists don't like the way Mexicans tend to assimilate and become voters, usually Democrats (although I don't have the figures on that at hand), not to speak of mongrelizing the sacred purity of the Aryan blood.
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America is now struggling with the downside of mongrelizing its population.
The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990
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Some day a Filipino Thomas Dixon, Thomas Nelson Page or John Temple Graves will write a story of that period frought with weird and fantastic tales of murder, intimidation, usurpation, tryanny, subjugation, land-grabbing, stealing and mongrelizing.
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The white man is there now, grabbing land, speculating, stirring up race hatred and mongrelizing an already mongrel people.
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His technically and culturally innovative shirts didn't just throw bright colors and shimmering fabrics out into circulation; they were one small but noteworthy contribution to the ongoing and wonderful globalizing and mongrelizing of post-war society and fashion.
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His technically and culturally innovative shirts didn't just throw bright colors and shimmering fabrics out into circulation; they were one small but noteworthy contribution to the ongoing and wonderful globalizing and mongrelizing of post-war society and fashion.
Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1 2009
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He bemoans the "terrible contra-selection of the best blood" caused by the loss of officers on both sides in the first World War, and concludes that England has already descended into a mongrelizing pit of miscegenation.
The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis Ahnenerbe 2008
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Unlike the glittering literary gold of Beowulf, Chaucer’s astonishing creation was built on centuries of English-speakers’ listening to French, and their creative mongrelizing of its “nonnative” words.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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