admixture

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Mr. Sayles notes that the U.S. is often quaintly likened to a melting pot; the reality of the country’s boiling admixture is much more dangerous and much more powerful.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

The team also hopes future discoveries will help test other possibilities, including scenarios involving genetic admixture between species, similar to what has been documented much later among Neanderthals, modern humans and "Denisovans."

From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025

“These papers illustrate how the intricate interplay between ancient selection and admixture events has profoundly shaped … present-day Eurasians.”

From Science Magazine • Jan. 10, 2024

I think I am ... as all of us are, a complex of motives, and everything we do is an admixture of many thoughts and premises oftentimes we don’t even understand.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2023

Beans are such excellent feeding that I cannot object to an admixture of them, and to most English horses they are almost a necessity; but in Ireland we care little about them.

From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Lambert, Nannie