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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024