cross-fertilize

How To Use cross-fertilize In A Sentence

• Adams is deeply interested in the broader musical dimensions of culture, how pop music and classical music coexist and sometimes cross-fertilize, how composers need audience feedback, how musical generations succeed one another and how some artists will fight quixotic battles to their dying day, holding true to avant-garde orthodoxy no matter how isolating it is. A conversation with John Adams, composer and so much else
• The two genres don't play off each other or give each other a fresh spin; they awkwardly coincide and never truly cross-fertilize. Michael Giltz: Cannes 2010 Day Four and Five: Mike Leigh's New Gem and Inside Job Rocks The Fest
• That all the fruit here is exceptionally tasty was noted by the Australians, who have taken scions from Kyrgyz apples to propagate and cross-fertilize with their own. Wildwood
• First, do the different organizations that are discussed in the various chapters cross-fertilize one another?
• We hope to cross-fertilize the company with the expertise we've gained from other industries.
• In some cases, he found that species were divided up into structurally distinctive groups which could freely cross-fertilize between groups but were nearly or completely sterile within a group.
• I'm not aware of organized attempts to cross-fertilize east and west with each other's prayer traditions, but that doesn't mean it's not happening.
• When there are hundreds of companies around, with workers more likely to change jobs, ideas can cross-fertilize. Serendipitous Connections
• Previous studies suggest inbred green-veined-orchid embryos are twice as likely to abort as those arising from cross-fertilized flowers.
• For example, he cites their unwillingness to concede that pollen from GM crops could cross-fertilize nearby conventional or organic varieties.