cross-pollination

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Recent Examples of cross-pollination Some of the most interesting moments at any edition of the Annecy Animation Festival come from cross-pollination – seeing the tangible influences of international animation. Kambole Campbell, Variety, 11 June 2025 The cross-pollination of religion and psychedelics has a long history. Michael Pollan, New Yorker, 19 May 2025 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 The program led to cross-pollination between the university, the companies, and their workers, who shared knowledge with their employers or started new companies in the region. Mark Dent, HubSpot, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cross-pollination
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cross-fertilization
Noun
  • 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.
    Abby Clayton, JSTOR Daily, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Maybe as a cross-fertilization?
    H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025

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