domesticate

Indigenous Andean communities were the first to domesticate the starch-rich crop, turning it into a dietary staple long before potatoes spread around the world.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

The accompanying material may occasionally press too hard in trying to domesticate what is, in the end, undomesticable, but the books themselves continue to exert their peculiar, unaccommodating force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

Corn was born here about 9,000 years ago, when Mesoamerican farmers first started to domesticate the wild grass known as teosinte.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025

We figured out how to grow food and domesticate animals so we didn’t have to spend all of our time hunting.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

We sense early on, from Mortensen’s delicate handling of their courtship, that this isn’t some musty rehash of the trope where she civilizes him and he domesticates her.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024

So these captive wolves have taken on an uneasy status: not wild, nor yet domesticates.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2020

The studio recording offers the sense of abstraction—it distills much of what Coltrane was doing in concert performances, it suggests it, it signifies it, but the album also domesticates it.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2015

We have thousands of plant and animal domesticates that are going to have to go with us.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 19, 2012

Southwest and Mississippi Valley to the modern American breadbaskets of California and Oregon, where Native American societies remained hunter-gatherers merely because they lacked appropriate domesticates.

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

Such contradictions, that cats can be both domesticated and yet somewhat feral, is part of their appeal, says comedian Drennon Davis, whose four cats have found internet fame via his short-form videos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Dusky farmerfish in East Asia grow “crops” of red algae by assiduously “weeding out less palatable foods” and have effectively domesticated a type of shrimp whose waste fertilizes the algae and boosts yields.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Humans, and the animals we have brought under our fold, such as dogs and horses, are still evolving and still being domesticated.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

Farmers still rely on plants that are "not really domesticated," said Miguel Santo Domingo Martinez, a postdoctoral researcher in the Lippman lab who led the study.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2026

Wheat and goats were domesticated by approximately 9000 BC; peas and lentils around 8000 BC; olive trees by 5000 BC; horses by 4000 BC; and grapevines in 3500 BC.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

UFO mythology, and especially its mock-scientific terminology, is a way of domesticating the unknown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Rather than simply hunting wolves or avoiding them, some prehistoric communities may have formed long-term relationships with the animals, managing and caring for them without fully domesticating them.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

But whereas people artificially selected against aggressive traits when domesticating dogs, similar changes seem to have happened naturally in bonobos—a process known as “self-domestication” that might also have occurred in humans.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 12, 2024

Humans have a long history of domesticating and crossing wild plants to produce new generations with better flavor and higher yields.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2023

“They may have not so much been questioning as domesticating you.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin