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Recent Examples of cross-pollination
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.
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Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
Because the services remain separate apps, the burden is largely on the marketing teams, not algorithms, to promote cross-pollination.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
This cross-pollination of customer bases demonstrates how hospitality brands can leverage partnerships to attract new audiences while providing existing guests with premium amenities.
—Kaleigh Moore, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
To avoid cross-pollination, different varieties of lettuce should be separated by at least 10 feet in the garden.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
Because the services remain separate apps, the burden is largely on the marketing teams, not algorithms, to promote cross-pollination.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
This cross-pollination of customer bases demonstrates how hospitality brands can leverage partnerships to attract new audiences while providing existing guests with premium amenities.
—Kaleigh Moore, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
To avoid cross-pollination, different varieties of lettuce should be separated by at least 10 feet in the garden.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 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 28 Jan. 2026.
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