hybridize
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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
CBS’s grandfather of news magazines isn’t going anywhere, but it is facing competition from the likes of Vice News and even Frontline and other outlets that hybridize online reporting with a TV presence.
From Salon ● May 26, 2019
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
Seed.—Nothing is more difficult in cabbage culture than raising pure seed; nothing hybridizes worse, and in nothing else is the effect worse.
From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.
Ben Hania’s last film was another bold meshing of the factual and the fictionalized, the hybridized Oscar-nominated documentary “Four Daughters,” in which a real Tunisian family processes personal tragedy through role-playing for the director’s camera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
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
The unplanned release in recent decades of giant salamanders from China has resulted in a rising number of hybridized animals of Japanese and Chinese descent.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
During the cold periods, when sea levels fell, scrub mint populations again overlapped, and these unique species hybridized with each other.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2024
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
And for anyone who wants a step-by-step lesson in hybridizing roses, this one’s definitely for you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
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
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
