Example Sentences

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Since my body makes essentially zero T I am dependent upon exogamous T. I have had my prescription tweaked, Ive used different formulations and Ive gone without and with extra.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2018

The Cherokee tradition of exogamous marriage, or marrying outside of one’s clan, evolved during the 17th and 18th centuries as Cherokees encountered Europeans on a more frequent basis.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2015

Except in France, where political philosophies tended to turn inward, most political movements of the past 150 years have been highly exogamous, often finding in partibus infidelium new ideas with which to mate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The exogamous limit, therefore, is denoted by the stock-name and crest, and kinship is kinship in the wolf, bear, potato, or whatever other object is recognised as the original ancestor.

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew

Thirdly: Mr. Morgan seems to require, for the enforcement of the exogamous law, a contrat social.

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew