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Recent Examples of cross-pollination
Just give them a few extra inches of space between varieties to prevent cross-pollination.
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Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
At that time, there was no cross-pollination between movies and television.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2025
That gives the creative team ample freedom to flesh out their vision of Derry, all while paying tribute to the breadth of King's vast oeuvre, which, by virtue of the author's penchant for cross-pollination, lends itself to Easter eggs.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
The Valley overlaps geographically with the hippie homeland of San Francisco, Berkeley, and their environs, and there’s long been cross-pollination, if not orgiastic copulation, between the two spheres.
—Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
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Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
At that time, there was no cross-pollination between movies and television.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2025
That gives the creative team ample freedom to flesh out their vision of Derry, all while paying tribute to the breadth of King's vast oeuvre, which, by virtue of the author's penchant for cross-pollination, lends itself to Easter eggs.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
The Valley overlaps geographically with the hippie homeland of San Francisco, Berkeley, and their environs, and there’s long been cross-pollination, if not orgiastic copulation, between the two spheres.
—Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cross-pollination
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cross-pollination
cross-fertilization
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By attacking America’s friends and allies through a variety of means and pushing their best students away from study in American universities, the Trump Administration is forcing others to hedge their bets on future cooperation and cross-fertilization of ideas.—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
11 Aug. 2025
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Yet today this cross-fertilization is no longer an occasional, sporadic benefit.—
Knowable Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 July 2025
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“Cross-pollination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cross-pollination. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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