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noun

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Adjective
  • Ramping up the coral production line While newly crossbred corals were recently outplanted and are now being monitored to evaluate which combination should go into production, researchers are racing to get the assembly line ready to scale output.
    Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The effort Tuesday was the first time internationally crossbred coral have been permitted to be outplanted anywhere in the world.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • No army in history seemed ever to have been more ragged and motley and mongrel and polyglot than the Continental, rich and poor, learned and illiterate, from boys to old men, skilled and unskilled, born all over the world, speaking dozens of languages, believing in different gods and in no god.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Reuters reported that the dog involved in the incident was a mongrel, or an unknown breed.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Dress shoe hybrids are also becoming more common in the wider world of sneakers, with Nike, Saucony and more taking their stabs at the trend.
    Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • This hybrid was developed in Japan and is mainly grown in California.
    Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • The morning after her whirlwind day, Johnson talked to TIME about her life-changing Games, the mixed emotions of winning a downhill on the same day teammate Lindsey Vonn broke her leg in a scary crash, and her ski-racing future.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
  • She is widely regarded as Britain’s first Black supermodel of mixed heritage.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Fernandez positioned himself on the shoulder of the last defender as Malo Gusto worked space for a low cross from the right that ran through to the back post.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The Eastview alum — who won an individual Nordic state title in 2016 — first joined cross country skiing because her friends were in it.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Caiman Cody, a 13-year-old from Tolar, Texas, was awarded the grand championship title on Friday after spending the past year caring for the white European crossbreed steer.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Feb. 2026
  • At the same time, intentional crossbreeds—often marketed as designer dogs such as cockapoos, maltipoos, and doodles—have surged in popularity.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
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“Half-bred.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/half-bred. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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