in-group
Example Sentences
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White women like Good are not just dissenters within the racial in-group, however, they are proof that the entire white nationalist story about inheritance and destiny is unstable.
From Salon • Jan. 14, 2026
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
To what extent does the dependence of the solidarity of the in-group upon its relations with the out-groups have a bearing upon present international relations?
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
