How to Use cross-pollination in a Sentence

cross-pollination

noun

• Well, during the ‘60s there was a big cross-pollination between the rock and roll world and the improv world.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 July 2025
• The first is the aforementioned lack of cross-pollination between the guests.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
• The cross-pollination of Hollywood and Japan goes back for decades.
  — Yuri Kageyama, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
• For each cross-pollination idea, explain the core insight, why nobody has done this yet, and what makes now the right time.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
• Almond trees depend on bees for cross-pollination, and bees in turn feed on almond pollen, which helps sustain the hives throughout the bloom.
  — Amy Taxin, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2023
• There's also the issue of cross-pollination, which will happen the second year these two are in the garden together.
  — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 3 July 2024
• The cross-pollination of religion and psychedelics has a long history.
  — Michael Pollan, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
• One of Antwerp’s distinctions is its cross-pollination of creative scenes.
  — Mary Winston Nicklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2024
• More fluidity among work teams and cross-pollination of skills gives both employees and employers ways to adapt when change comes.
  — Sarah Peiker, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Webb sees potential not only for sowing and reaping but for cross-pollination as well.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2023
• And there’s enough cross-pollination between the staffs to think no one will be surprised inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium, no matter what happens.
  — Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
• There’s so much cross-pollination between scenes, a lot of different people playing on each other’s records and sitting in with each other.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• Something starry-eyed about the joy of tournament football — the novelty, the discovery, the cross-pollination?
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 18 June 2025
• Such collaboration and cross-pollination is why the state permitted the creation of charter schools 25 years ago.
  — Robert Rader, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2025
• Such collaboration and cross-pollination is why the state permitted the creation of charter schools 25 years ago.
  — Robert Rader, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2025
• The main course is another lesson in culinary cross-pollination.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• Yet for all of that cultural cross-pollination, the role that Indian arts and crafts have played in shaping global aesthetics has not always received its due.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2023
• When ordering your pawpaws, be sure to plant two or more selections to ensure cross-pollination of the different pawpaw trees.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2023
• The cross-pollination yields a brand of comedy whose values are clear but that never loses sight of life’s unpredictability.
  — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
• The cross-pollination yields a brand of comedy whose values are clear but that never loses sight of life’s unpredictability.
  — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
• This cross-pollination of ideas is already influencing the main series.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
• After the war, the pace of East-West picture book cross-pollination quickened dramatically.
  — Leonard S. Marcus, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• Fashion is a cross-pollination of different mediums and interests and cultures and ideas.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2024
• Such cross-pollination of ideas among diverse hackathon participants -- who may not speak the same tongue but who do understand the same code -- unleashes new creative energies.
  — Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• For David Weiss, an American designer who sees a revolution in the making, a cross-pollination of ideas is essential.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 29 July 2023
• Pecans need cross-pollination between a compatible pair of cultivars to produce a crop.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
• The world of celebrity chefs is a rather small circle, as often exhibited in the cross-pollination that occurs on their various television programs.
  — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Money, 18 June 2025
• What struck me at the time, was the role of cross-pollination of ideas across geographies.
  — Alex Lazarow, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
• The best way to ensure high yields is to plant two or more cultivars together for cross-pollination.
  — Larry Figart, Florida Times-Union, 14 Jan. 2026
• At that time, there was no cross-pollination between movies and television.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2025