domesticate

Example Sentences

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"We can use these modern tools to domesticate undomesticated crops."

From Science Daily • Jan. 11, 2026

T1 and Canadian Solar have made particularly big strides in the last couple of months to fully domesticate their supply chains so they can take advantage of the government subsidies.

From Barron's • Dec. 9, 2025

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 did peoples outside the Fertile Crescent fail to domesticate them, and begin to grow them only when they had already been domesticated in the eastern Mediterranean and arrived thence as crops?

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