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
  • And there’s enough cross-pollination between the staffs to think no one will be surprised inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium, no matter what happens.
    — Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Such collaboration and cross-pollination is why the state permitted the creation of charter schools 25 years ago.
    — Robert Rader, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The cross-pollination yields a brand of comedy whose values are clear but that never loses sight of life’s unpredictability.
    — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • This cross-pollination of ideas is already influencing the main series.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • More cross-pollination of Showtime and Paramount+ offerings might help, especially with a new season of Yellowjackets on the horizon.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 25 Dec. 2024
  • There are countless examples of cross-pollination within or across disciplines that lead to discovery.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Though the Playhouse was not attached officially to the university, there was some cross-pollination, with Smith being much in demand as a cast member for student productions and revues at what was still then a largely male institution.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024
  • 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

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