cross-pollinate
Example Sentences
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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.
“I see this space as being an incubator. We know that when you cross-pollinate creatives, good things happen.”
From Seattle Times
It would have been too tricky to cross-pollinate them.
From Los Angeles Times
We cross-pollinate plants that have the attributes that we’re looking for.
From Scientific American
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
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