How to Use cross-pollination in a Sentence

cross-pollination

noun
  • The cross-pollination of Hollywood and Japan goes back for decades.
    Yuri Kageyama, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Almond trees depend on bees for cross-pollination, and bees in turn feed on almond pollen, which helps sustain the hives throughout the bloom.
    Amy Taxin, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2023
  • There's also the issue of cross-pollination, which will happen the second year these two are in the garden together.
    Heather Bien, Southern Living, 3 July 2024
  • One of Antwerp’s distinctions is its cross-pollination of creative scenes.
    Mary Winston Nicklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2024
  • More fluidity among work teams and cross-pollination of skills gives both employees and employers ways to adapt when change comes.
    Sarah Peiker, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Webb sees potential not only for sowing and reaping but for cross-pollination as well.
    Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2023
  • There’s so much cross-pollination between scenes, a lot of different people playing on each other’s records and sitting in with each other.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • The main course is another lesson in culinary cross-pollination.
    Emily Heil, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Yet for all of that cultural cross-pollination, the role that Indian arts and crafts have played in shaping global aesthetics has not always received its due.
    Marley Marius, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2023
  • When ordering your pawpaws, be sure to plant two or more selections to ensure cross-pollination of the different pawpaw trees.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Fashion is a cross-pollination of different mediums and interests and cultures and ideas.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Such cross-pollination of ideas among diverse hackathon participants -- who may not speak the same tongue but who do understand the same code -- unleashes new creative energies.
    Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • For David Weiss, an American designer who sees a revolution in the making, a cross-pollination of ideas is essential.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 29 July 2023
  • Pecans need cross-pollination between a compatible pair of cultivars to produce a crop.
    Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
  • With so much cross-pollination going on, there’s a logic to having someone at Erwich’s level serving as a day-to-day creative director and content traffic cop.
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
  • And Taylor offered some insight into why the Cal and Stanford coaching ranks have experienced such cross-pollination.
    Steve Kroner, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Disagreement creates cross-pollination between groups and that back-and-forth makes an even bigger cultural moment.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The effect of all that creative cross-pollination is awesome; every moment bursts with color, texture, humor, movement.
    Marley Marius, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Apples grow naturally with cross-pollination — meaning wind or bees transfer pollen from one apple plant to the blossoms on another.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Great for eating fresh and baking, this apple type came to exist thanks to a humble Minnesota honeybee's path during natural cross-pollination.
    Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The cross-pollination of ideas and conversations that spring organically from her relationships, in turn, feed her writing.
    Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Long before the narrative overcrowding of cross-pollination, composite timelines and the damn multiverse brought fatigue to the modern comic-book superhero adventure, those movies had freshness and a buoyant sense of fun.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Some apple cultivars can fruit by themselves, but most require cross-pollination with another apple tree of a different cultivar.
    Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Leaders must never lose track of key performance indices, such as vision sharing, team bonding, cross-pollination of ideas, derivation of learnings, improvement of workplace culture, client relations or customer experience, etc.
    Abiola Salami, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • And nothing spurs cross-pollination like space exploration, which draws from the ranks of astrophysicists, biologists, chemists, engineers, planetary geologists, and subspecialists in those fields.
    Neil Degrasse Tyson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2012
  • Charleston connection There is little cross-pollination between programs separated by 2,157 miles.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The Smith collaboration is a timely and natural progression as country-Christian cross-pollinations continue with increasing frequency.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Though largely a celebration of musical innovation, cross-pollination, and refusal to compromise, Oblivion held one goodbye ceremony: one of San Francisco black metal quintet Ludicra’s final shows.
    Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 27 June 2023
  • The synergistic wealth strategy encourages family offices to adopt a proactive lens, seeking out potential synergies and cross-pollination opportunities.
    Ian Wilding, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023

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