in-group
Example Sentences
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Their goodwill is awkward, as it must be when an in-group member tries to commiserate with “the other,” but it is, nonetheless, sympathy, which is to say concern.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
This suggests that rivalry strengthens in-group bonds and reinforces social identity.
From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025
So if you decide to exclude someone from a paradigm, you have to change the rules and you have to define who is in the in-group and who is in the out-group.
From Slate • Mar. 3, 2025
We asked questions about their national in-group bias — which is, for example, how intelligent or charismatic they perceived a typical United Kingdom resident to be.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024
This control by the in-group over its members makes for solidity and impenetrability in its relations with the out-group.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
