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Recent Examples of cross-fertilization
One of the last and most powerful intersections in the arts, where cross-fertilization and creative renewal can and should happen, is between film and opera.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Mar. 2026
One of the literary cross-fertilizations involves artists’ cards, which feature in the novel Bolt from the Blue (2021), composed in the form of correspondence by letter, postcard and email between a single mother in Birmingham and her artist daughter in London.
—Literary Hub, 12 Feb. 2026
In the public debate, there are those who speak only about such cultural cross-fertilization, and those who speak only about restitution.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2025
There are arguments for Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, and Lithuanian roots, among others, suggestive of the linguistic cross-fertilizations of central and southeastern Europe.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Sep. 2025
By attacking America’s friends and allies through a variety of means and pushing their best students away from study in American universities, the Trump Administration is forcing others to hedge their bets on future cooperation and cross-fertilization of ideas.
—Ian Bremmer, Time, 11 Aug. 2025
Yet today this cross-fertilization is no longer an occasional, sporadic benefit.
—Knowable Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2025
Maybe as a cross-fertilization?
—H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Mar. 2026
One of the literary cross-fertilizations involves artists’ cards, which feature in the novel Bolt from the Blue (2021), composed in the form of correspondence by letter, postcard and email between a single mother in Birmingham and her artist daughter in London.
—Literary Hub, 12 Feb. 2026
In the public debate, there are those who speak only about such cultural cross-fertilization, and those who speak only about restitution.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2025
There are arguments for Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, and Lithuanian roots, among others, suggestive of the linguistic cross-fertilizations of central and southeastern Europe.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Sep. 2025
By attacking America’s friends and allies through a variety of means and pushing their best students away from study in American universities, the Trump Administration is forcing others to hedge their bets on future cooperation and cross-fertilization of ideas.
—Ian Bremmer, Time, 11 Aug. 2025
Yet today this cross-fertilization is no longer an occasional, sporadic benefit.
—Knowable Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2025
Maybe as a cross-fertilization?
—H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cross-fertilization
cross-pollination
Noun
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This hybridization resulted in Bradford producing fertile fruit through cross-pollination from other cultivars.—
Campbell Vaughn,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2026
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So there’s this very beautiful cross-pollination happening.—
Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Cross-fertilization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cross-fertilization. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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