cross-pollinate
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The bank thinks it can get its various lines of business—from consumer deposits to wealth management to investment banking—to cross-pollinate faster and fuel profits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
It would have been too tricky to cross-pollinate them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
We cross-pollinate plants that have the attributes that we’re looking for.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023
Unless you’re growing a multigraft espalier, or your neighbors have apple trees in their garden, to get good fruit set, you’ll need to plant more than one variety so the trees can cross-pollinate.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2023
They were virtually impossible to cross-pollinate and rarely generated hybrids.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
He travelled across India collecting seeds and brought them back to his farm where he cross-pollinated them.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
Soon, plants grown from the old seeds were cross-pollinated with modern, high-yielding varieties, but it took years for any perceptible changes to really take hold.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2023
“It’s based on the melting pot of the unprecedented cross-pollinated experiment of America,” she continues of Americana.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
To Mr. Sprung, musical styles existed to be cross-pollinated.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
They had to be cross-pollinated by another plant belonging to a genetically different variety of their species.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Nuccio’s Nurseries offers more than 500 varieties of camellias, many created by cross-pollinating bees and then nurtured by the owners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025
Our country’s multiethnic, Technicolor, cross-pollinating, ever-evolving, spangly, slang-filled, boom shakalaka, dream-big, dance-hard culture permeated almost every moment of the show.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
Breeding such characteristics into potatoes is a long process of cross-pollinating different potato varieties.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2021
In that same year, Markus Kobelt — a nurseryman in Buchs, Switzerland — developed his acclaimed Redlove apples after cross-pollinating red-fleshed varieties with Royal Gala and Braeburn apples.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2021
The amount of pollen produced by the Reed variety has always been considered ample for cross-pollinating the Potomac, even though the former has been a light producer of catkins.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Forty-Second Annual Meeting Urbana, Illinois, August 28, 29 and 30, 1951 by Northern Nut Growers Association
