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For such a graph <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>, a classical result of Simonovits from 1966 shows that every graph on <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"https:\/\/2.zoppoz.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"graphic\/jgt22075-math-0001.png\" xlink:title=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt22075:jgt22075-math-0001\"\/> vertices with more than <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"https:\/\/2.zoppoz.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"graphic\/jgt22075-math-0002.png\" xlink:title=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt22075:jgt22075-math-0002\"\/> edges contains a copy of <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>. In this article we derive a similar theorem for multipartite graphs. For a graph <jats:italic>H<\/jats:italic> and an integer <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"https:\/\/2.zoppoz.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"graphic\/jgt22075-math-0003.png\" xlink:title=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt22075:jgt22075-math-0003\"\/>, let <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"https:\/\/2.zoppoz.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"graphic\/jgt22075-math-0004.png\" xlink:title=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt22075:jgt22075-math-0004\"\/> be the minimum real number such that every \u2113\u2010partite graph whose edge density between any two parts is greater than <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"https:\/\/2.zoppoz.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"graphic\/jgt22075-math-0005.png\" xlink:title=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt22075:jgt22075-math-0005\"\/> contains a copy of <jats:italic>H<\/jats:italic>. Our main contribution in this article is to show that <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"https:\/\/2.zoppoz.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"graphic\/jgt22075-math-0006.png\" xlink:title=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt22075:jgt22075-math-0006\"\/> for all <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"https:\/\/2.zoppoz.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"graphic\/jgt22075-math-0007.png\" xlink:title=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt22075:jgt22075-math-0007\"\/> sufficiently large if and only if <jats:italic>H<\/jats:italic> admits a vertex\u2010coloring with <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"https:\/\/2.zoppoz.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"graphic\/jgt22075-math-0008.png\" xlink:title=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt22075:jgt22075-math-0008\"\/> colors such that all color classes but one are independent sets, and the exceptional class induces just a matching. When <jats:italic>H<\/jats:italic> is a complete graph, this recovers a result of Pfender (Combinatorica 32 (2012), 483\u2013495). 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