hybridize

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

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

“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

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

From Slate ● May 8, 2019

This species meets and hybridizes with the Black-headed Grosbeak west of the Flint Hills.

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

They say Atlanta’s newer skaters, who have wide access to regional variants, increasingly practice a hybridized type of skating that’s not rooted in any one tradition.

From New York Times ● May 2, 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

With hybridizing, the mostly pink-and-white lactiflora range has been expanded to include crosses yielding coral, bright-red and yellow flowers, adding genetics from other species and extending bloom time.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 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

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