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
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
“Seek You” is part of a growing trend of graphic narratives that hybridize memoir with social history rendered both verbally and visually.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 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 Bullock Oriole in western Kansas, and individuals morphologically typical of Baltimore Orioles are rare west of the 100th meridian.
From The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Richard F. Johnston
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
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
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
Fatalism and perseverance have been reliable themes for this New Jersey native, whose bright ideas about hybridizing rap and pop once provided some necessary sparkle to Kanye West’s dimmest album, 2018’s “Ye.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2022
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
