domesticate

The accompanying material may occasionally press too hard in trying to domesticate what is, in the end, undomesticable, but the books themselves continue to exert their peculiar, unaccommodating force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

"We can use these modern tools to domesticate undomesticated crops."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2026

And yet none of them voted against it; some tried to domesticate it or expressed hope that South Carolina would be ready for a bill this extreme in the future.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2025

The impulse to domesticate performance into a comprehensible story was denied by the sensory bombardment of his productions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025

It began in the Near East sometime about 8000 B.C., with the first successful attempts to domesticate animals and food grains.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

We sense early on, from Mortensen’s delicate handling of their courtship, that this isn’t some musty rehash of the trope where she civilizes him and he domesticates her.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024

So these captive wolves have taken on an uneasy status: not wild, nor yet domesticates.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2020

The studio recording offers the sense of abstraction—it distills much of what Coltrane was doing in concert performances, it suggests it, it signifies it, but the album also domesticates it.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2015

We have thousands of plant and animal domesticates that are going to have to go with us.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 19, 2012

Most candidates disqualify themselves as potential domesticates for any of half a dozen reasons.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Such contradictions, that cats can be both domesticated and yet somewhat feral, is part of their appeal, says comedian Drennon Davis, whose four cats have found internet fame via his short-form videos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

But there’s also some solid evidence that humans domesticated ourselves, selecting tameness over aggression.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

Instead of positioning the product as a domesticated race car, he realized this was Ferrari’s chance to sell something less tangible but infinitely more valuable: the fulfillment of every fan’s childhood dreams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

They also found that Przewalski's horses, a species closely related to domesticated horses, produce whinnies that include biphonation.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2026

Some animals and plants, such as camels and cashew nuts, were domesticated even later, but by 3500 BC the main wave of domestication was over.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

UFO mythology, and especially its mock-scientific terminology, is a way of domesticating the unknown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The ancestors of Indigenous Andeans already possessed different numbers of AMY1 copies before settling in the highlands and domesticating potatoes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

To Linklater, this raises the concern that dehorning might be inadvertently domesticating rhinos, because the rhinos that are most wild and can least acclimate to capture would be least likely to survive and breed.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 11, 2023

Where the peoples of the steppes pioneered was in domesticating the horse, giving them a significant military advantage over their neighbors.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

It was only within the last 11,000 years that some peoples turned to what is termed food production: that is, domesticating wild animals and plants and eating the resulting livestock and crops.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond