as in cross-pollination
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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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The cross-pollination of religion and psychedelics has a long history.—
Michael Pollan,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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To encourage cross-pollination of ideas, Villa staff often travel to Irun to monitor current loanees, though unfortunately Munroe suffered an ankle injury in March and returned to the Midlands for rehabilitation.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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“Cross-fertilization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cross-fertilization. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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