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Recent Examples of cross-fertilization
Yet today this cross-fertilization is no longer an occasional, sporadic benefit.
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Knowable Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2025
For example, what Fluck calls an aesthetic transnationalism aims to recover and celebrate America as a site of global flow and rich cultural cross-fertilization.
—Abby Clayton, JSTOR Daily, 29 Apr. 2025
Maybe as a cross-fertilization?
—H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
In other words, don’t ignore cross-fertilization.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Politics and journalism had its share of cross-fertilization with figures such as George Stephanopoulos and the late Tim Russert.
—David Bauder, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
Music has historically been the country’s ethnically richest art form, particularly embodied in the multicultural story of jazz and in today’s cross-fertilization between popular genres.
—Erik Gleibermann, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
Strong relationships support innovation, enabling the cross-fertilization of new concepts.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
Knowable Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2025
For example, what Fluck calls an aesthetic transnationalism aims to recover and celebrate America as a site of global flow and rich cultural cross-fertilization.
—Abby Clayton, JSTOR Daily, 29 Apr. 2025
Maybe as a cross-fertilization?
—H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
In other words, don’t ignore cross-fertilization.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Politics and journalism had its share of cross-fertilization with figures such as George Stephanopoulos and the late Tim Russert.
—David Bauder, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
Music has historically been the country’s ethnically richest art form, particularly embodied in the multicultural story of jazz and in today’s cross-fertilization between popular genres.
—Erik Gleibermann, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
Strong relationships support innovation, enabling the cross-fertilization of new concepts.
—Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cross-fertilization
cross-pollination
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By bringing together neuroscientists, AI researchers, mathematicians, and industry practitioners, the event creates space for the kind of cross-pollination that could yield breakthrough insights.—
Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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For each cross-pollination idea, explain the core insight, why nobody has done this yet, and what makes now the right time.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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“Cross-fertilization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cross-fertilization. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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