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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

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

These four were evidently among the easiest to domesticate of all wild fruits.

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

At about the same time, though, another group of late domesticates arose with much less effort, as wild plants that established themselves initially as weeds in fields of intentionally cultivated crops.

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

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

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

"Wherever dogs were first domesticated, they had already reached Europe by at least 14,000 years ago and they go on to contribute quite substantially to the dogs we see today," Bergström told me.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

China’s first revolutionaries domesticated rice, millet and pigs.

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

The ancestors of Indigenous Andeans already possessed different numbers of AMY1 copies before settling in the highlands and domesticating potatoes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 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

All were capable of farming, domesticating animals, and manufacturing textiles and ceramics.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Neither did thrushes set out with the intent of domesticating strawberries.

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