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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

The result was again the start of farming dependent on crops from elsewhere, a failure to domesticate local species, and a massive modern replacement of human population.

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

The study of animal bones... shows that cattle were the most common domesticates at the sites.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 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

Researchers also found DNA from cultivated plants, domesticated animals and Mediterranean red coral.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Dusky farmerfish in East Asia grow “crops” of red algae by assiduously “weeding out less palatable foods” and have effectively domesticated a type of shrimp whose waste fertilizes the algae and boosts yields.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

Sheep were first domesticated approximately 10,500 years ago in the Middle East, and were eventually brought to British shores by Neolithic farmers some time around 4000BC.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026

Since most villages lived by cultivating a very limited variety of domesticated plants and animals, they were at the mercy of droughts, floods and pestilence.

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

"At Titicaca, Andeans accomplished the remarkable achievement of domesticating plants like the potato, leaving behind a nutritious legacy that is still appreciated today," he said.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023

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

It was here that about twelve thousand years ago people began domesticating edible wild grasses to create what we know today as wheat and barley.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

The origin of dogs is contentious, but I hypothesize that domesticating wolves into dogs may have helped the first modern humans to outcompete other hominins like Neandertals.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2022

In a few places it developed independently, as a result of local people domesticating local plants and animals.

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