hybridize

The message being that if you’re going to hybridize, do it with the best.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

But when different species hybridize, beneficial genes that have evolved in one species can, through mating with the hybrid, migrate to the other species in the blink of an evolutionary eye.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2022

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: Two closely related species hybridize and create a superorganism whose growth and expansion seems unstoppable.

From Science Magazine ● May 31, 2022

As grizzly bears move north, for example, they are beginning to hybridize with polar bears, challenging "our cultural notions of discrete species and stable ecosystems."

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2021

They were mostly self-pollinating: that is, the crop varieties could pollinate themselves and pass on their own desirable genes unchanged, instead of having to hybridize with other varieties less useful to humans.

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

The author hybridizes many forms of nonfiction to explore questions people have been asking about war for centuries.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2022

“Where there’s love overflowing” hybridizes the White Cube and the Black Box — the normative settings for fine art and avant-garde theater, respectively.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2022

"Homecoming" hybridizes the concert film with a backstage exploration of intellectual consciousness.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2021

Ingalls’s work hybridizes classical literature and mid-century Americana.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019

The species hybridizes freely with the Baltimore Oriole, and most Bullock Orioles in Kansas show evidence of such interbreeding.

From The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Richard F. Johnston

Among fast cars, the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X—a hybridized, 1,250-hp monster—debuts with a price tag starting just over 200 grand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

Abe’s focused approach to pleats and her hybridized design techniques have continued to evolve, maintaining Sacai’s position at the forefront of Japan’s fashion vanguard.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

It’s a lot to pack into one hybridized feature, as if your four-course meal came with a dramatization of the sweat and joy that went into preparing it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

Kobe University researchers found that this came at the cost of being hybridized with another orchid species adapted to being pollinated by the wasp.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2023

We know from Sumerian and later depictions that onagers were regularly hunted, as well as captured and hybridized with donkeys and horses.

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

As the pre-war avant-garde’s celebration of image-breaking, violent spectacle and weird hybridizing became muddy reality in the field, the amateurs outstripped the professionals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Miller has introduced dozens of begonias from his own hybridizing work, and another breeder even named one in his honor.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2021

John Lonsdale, a breeder and grower in Exton, Pa., says he is still content “to let the bees do their work,” but he acknowledges the efficiency of hybridizing.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2021

And these ad-hoc crusades don’t take into account the fact that all cuisines are in constant flux anyway and that it’s not just white chefs, but those of color, too, who are hybridizing and innovating.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2018

Using a different method, Jorge Mora-Urpi, one of Clement’s collaborators, concluded that Indians might have bred the modern peach palm by hybridizing palms from several areas, including the Peruvian Amazon.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann