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Recent Examples of cross-fertilization
For example, what Fluck calls an aesthetic transnationalism aims to recover and celebrate America as a site of global flow and rich cultural cross-fertilization.
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Abby Clayton, JSTOR Daily, 29 Apr. 2025
Maybe as a cross-fertilization?
—H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
In other words, don’t ignore cross-fertilization.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Politics and journalism had its share of cross-fertilization with figures such as George Stephanopoulos and the late Tim Russert.
—David Bauder, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
Music has historically been the country’s ethnically richest art form, particularly embodied in the multicultural story of jazz and in today’s cross-fertilization between popular genres.
—Erik Gleibermann, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
Strong relationships support innovation, enabling the cross-fertilization of new concepts.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
Abby Clayton, JSTOR Daily, 29 Apr. 2025
Maybe as a cross-fertilization?
—H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
In other words, don’t ignore cross-fertilization.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Politics and journalism had its share of cross-fertilization with figures such as George Stephanopoulos and the late Tim Russert.
—David Bauder, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
Music has historically been the country’s ethnically richest art form, particularly embodied in the multicultural story of jazz and in today’s cross-fertilization between popular genres.
—Erik Gleibermann, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
Strong relationships support innovation, enabling the cross-fertilization of new concepts.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cross-fertilization
cross-pollination
Noun
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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
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Sandler is also embracing a bit of cross-pollination with the sequel by (seemingly) folding in Blake Clark's fan-favorite role as Farmer Fran from The Waterboy (1998).—
Allison DeGrushe Published,
EW.com,
19 June 2025
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“Cross-fertilization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cross-fertilization. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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