Thesaurus results for DOMESTICATING

domesticating

verb

present participle of domesticate

as in cultivating

to change (a wild animal or plant) over time to make it more suited to life with or use by humans Humans domesticated wolves to produce man's best friend.

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Recent Examples of domesticating Lonpi Tipi added that domesticating larvae production ultimately would lead to solving problems related to access to protein- and nutrition-rich food. —

Emmet Livingstone, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025 But where chimps might merely poke over the ashes, our lineage at some point took the next step in promoting and even domesticating the flames — perhaps picking a smoldering stick from the edges of one grassland, and lighting the grassland in the next valley over. —

Peter Brannen, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025

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Iran had been building that capacity in Iraq since the 1980s, cultivating Shia political networks, exile parties and militia groups during and after the Iran-Iraq War and beyond with the explicit goal of ensuring a post-Saddam Iraq would never again threaten Iranian security.

— Farah N. Jan, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
Organizations that fail to provide clearer pathways risk losing the very leaders responsible for cultivating talent across the enterprise.

— Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2026