in-group
Example Sentences
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A vice signaler typically violates moral or other standards of an out-group precisely in order to look good to the fellow members of some in-group.
From Salon • Jan. 29, 2026
“An autocracy needs to create an in-group versus an out-group,” Corrales explained.
From Slate • Jan. 15, 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
He describes the transition from contacts of the out-group to those of the in-group, or from remote to intimate relations.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
