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noun

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Adjective
  • Ramping up the coral production line While newly crossbred corals were recently outplanted and are now being monitored to evaluate which combination should go into production, researchers are racing to get the assembly line ready to scale output.
    Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The effort Tuesday was the first time internationally crossbred coral have been permitted to be outplanted anywhere in the world.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • No army in history seemed ever to have been more ragged and motley and mongrel and polyglot than the Continental, rich and poor, learned and illiterate, from boys to old men, skilled and unskilled, born all over the world, speaking dozens of languages, believing in different gods and in no god.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Reuters reported that the dog involved in the incident was a mongrel, or an unknown breed.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Indeed, where temperatures stay above 40 degrees, this hybrid of two South African natives blooms all twelve months of the year in coastal gardens.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 8 Nov. 2025
  • This necklace-scarf hybrid can instantly upgrade any white button down or basic black cocktail dress.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Participants can sculpt with air-dry clay, paint on canvas, or craft a collage or mixed-media piece such as a design vision board.
    Staff Author, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The experience left them with mixed emotions.
    Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Virtual and physical demonstrations and presentations familiarized the audience, a cross-section of entertainment, finance and technology pros, with the companies’ innovations and ambitions.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Reggaeton is one of the most popular genres in the world, a cross between reggae and hip-hop and Afro Caribbean sounds.
    Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Originally bred as a guide dog in the 1960s, the standard goldendoodle—a crossbreed of a golden retriever and poodle—weighs an average of 50 to 90 pounds.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • These crossbreeds may keep hope alive And while naturally conceived elkhorn and staghorn coral may soon be a thing of the past in Florida, reef restoration groups will keep breeding and replanting them.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Half-bred.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/half-bred. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.

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