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Raymond Yoshimura would go on to hybridize several plants, including the Mission Bell azalea that became a popular draw for the nursery, Swanton said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2023

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

This species, like the preceding, hybridizes freely with S. cordata.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

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

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

Feral domestic pigs bred with purebred Eurasian boar that were introduced for hunting, and hybridized wild pigs spread across the landscape due to prolific reproductive rates and a willingness to eat just about anything.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 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

David Austin Roses usually releases about two varieties every year — another is expected next month — after selecting two parental roses and hybridizing them by cross-pollinating around 40,000 seeds by hand.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2023

But hybridizing is the long game, and if breeders work on them, they may become as pretty as white daffodils with sumptuous pink- and rose-colored cups.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2021

George C. Thomas Jr. was a product of wealth, a man who could afford to spend his days breeding English setters, hybridizing roses and designing golf courses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2015

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