hybridize
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“There is curiosity on whether they’re gonna hybridize and maybe produce a whole new species, so that is genuinely unknown,” she said.
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
One potential advantage to lice as markers of human migrations is that the parasites can hybridize even if their human hosts do not, Pedersen notes.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 7, 2023
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
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
It is essential that the planting be made as far as possible from similar varieties, as it mixes, or hybridizes, readily with all of its kind.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr
In this and other ways, the hybridized Crosstrek is not so much different but comprehensively improved: more refined, responsive and meaningfully more fuel efficient.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
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
"Thus, when Robusta hybridized itself back into Arabica on Timor, it brought some of its pathogen defense genes along with it," says Albert, who also co-led sequencing of the Robusta genome in 2014.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024
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
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
With hybridizing, the mostly pink-and-white lactiflora range has been expanded to include crosses yielding coral, bright-red and yellow flowers, adding genetics from other species and extending bloom time.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
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
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
