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hybridize

[hahy-bri-dahyz] / ˈhaɪ brɪˌdaɪz /




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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

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

“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 with the Indigo Bunting in the western half of the State.

From The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Richard F. Johnston

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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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