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

Archaeological evidence indicated that the two regions may have been in contact at least 10,000 years ago when people in Mesopotamia began to farm and domesticate animals, leading to the emergence of an agricultural society.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

European herders and farmers emigrating to other continents have also made serious efforts to domesticate some local species.

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

It heralds “Ol’ Man River’s” heartbreak, the way enough time in Hollywood domesticates even the freest spirit into commercial relatability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

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

Only later did domesticates derived from indigenous species of the Indian subcontinent, such as humped cattle and sesame, appear in Indus Valley farming communities.

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

Humans, and the animals we have brought under our fold, such as dogs and horses, are still evolving and still being domesticated.

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

The scientists detected Y. pestis DNA in the remains of a domesticated sheep that lived about 4,000 years ago.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026

Leopard cats did not become domesticated and continue to live wild across Asia.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

Why did peoples outside the Fertile Crescent fail to domesticate them, and begin to grow them only when they had already been domesticated in the eastern Mediterranean and arrived thence as crops?

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

"These people were living a primarily hunting-and-gathering lifestyle and probably had only recently begun growing crops and domesticating animals."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024

Humans have a long history of domesticating and crossing wild plants to produce new generations with better flavor and higher yields.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2023

Second, the process of domesticating wild plants inevitably leads to a substantial decrease in genetic diversity in general.

From Scientific American ● May 4, 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

Non-milk drinkers, one imagines, would be less likely to work at domesticating milk-giving animals.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann