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cross-pollinate

verb as in cross

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“I see this space as being an incubator. We know that when you cross-pollinate creatives, good things happen.”

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It would have been too tricky to cross-pollinate them.

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We cross-pollinate plants that have the attributes that we’re looking for.

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Unless you’re growing a multigraft espalier, or your neighbors have apple trees in their garden, to get good fruit set, you’ll need to plant more than one variety so the trees can cross-pollinate.

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"One of the Madonna's skills is that she's able to cross-pollinate ideas between different projects," said Price.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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