Definition of "outbreeding" []

• The breeding of distantly related or unrelated individuals, often producing a hybrid of superior quality. (noun)
• Anthropology The mating of persons from different groups, often as a consequence of proscriptions against marriage within the group. (noun)

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• "She has even begun to touch on the American hard right's preposterous predictions that Muslims are "outbreeding" the continent's traditional populations and will impose shariah law "within decades.""
• "hybrid offspring from these Arctic animal matings will likely be strong and healthy, because unlike inbreeding, which magnifies deleterious genes, so-called outbreeding can mask these genes."
• "In bygone days, population changes (with the exception of immigration) might come down to a simple matter of which areas were "outbreeding" the others."