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And rather than trying to domesticate every step of a supply chain, identify the true chokepoints—the raw silicon, the wafer, the chip assembly—and secure those.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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

Corn was born here about 9,000 years ago, when Mesoamerican farmers first started to domesticate the wild grass known as teosinte.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025

Why, then, didn’t Native Americans domesticate those apparently useful apples and grapes themselves?

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

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

While Eurasia provides the world’s widest band of land at the same latitude, and hence the most dramatic example of rapid spread of domesticates, there are other examples as well.

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

Humans domesticated the birds and used them as messengers and as food for thousands of years.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

Experts disagree about the exact date, but we have incontrovertible evidence of domesticated dogs from about 15,000 years ago.

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

But whereas people artificially selected against aggressive traits when domesticating dogs, similar changes seem to have happened naturally in bonobos—a process known as “self-domestication” that might also have occurred in humans.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 12, 2024

"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

A few thousand years later they began domesticating cotton.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

That rapid spread preempted opportunities for domesticating those and related species in the Balkans.

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