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

“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

Ingalls’s work hybridizes classical literature and mid-century Americana.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019

Seed.—Nothing is more difficult in cabbage culture than raising pure seed; nothing hybridizes worse, and in nothing else is the effect worse.

From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden

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

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

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

Miller has introduced dozens of begonias from his own hybridizing work, and another breeder even named one in his honor.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 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