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hybridize

[hahy-bri-dahyz] / ˈhaɪ brɪˌdaɪz /




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Some can still hybridize today to produce viable offspring.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2024

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

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

Some knotweed hybridizes and evolves, but much of it does not change.

From Slate ● May 8, 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

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

Singer demonstrates himself to be a mad scientist of celluloid sensation, creating a hybridized monster of influences, images, sounds and emotions that you won’t soon forget.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024

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

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

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

Thanks to zealous breeding and new hybridizing techniques, begonias are booming right along with the renaissance of houseplants.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2021

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


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