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
A dog whistle secretly communicates one targeted idea to an in-group while also offering an innocuous separate message to people outside of that group.
From Salon • Sep. 15, 2024
What is lacking is an authority which can impose commands on the in-group and extrude blood revenge from it.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
