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

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

Our failure to domesticate even a single major new food plant in modern times suggests that ancient peoples really may have explored virtually all useful wild plants and domesticated all the ones worth domesticating.

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