as in intercross
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Recent Examples of outcross
What if chimeras escape and outcross in the wild?
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Amy Webb, Wired, 1 Dec. 2021
If a population is highly inbred, then individuals who are not relations by social custom may still be so genetically similar to a point where the pairing can not credibly be stated as an outcross.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2012
Amy Webb, Wired, 1 Dec. 2021
If a population is highly inbred, then individuals who are not relations by social custom may still be so genetically similar to a point where the pairing can not credibly be stated as an outcross.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outcross
Noun
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The same grass/plastic hybrid, but this time grown at a turf farm 200 miles north of London and then rolled into 720 pieces of pitch, loaded onto lorries and driven south.—
Matt Slater,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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In New York, there are 172,000 electric vehicles and 114,000 hybrids on the road, according to data from Atlas Public Policy.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Zoom in: High school junior Jett Hale, from Miami, Texas, fetched the reserve record with his steer, Mike, a stunning charolais crossbreed.—
Jay R. Jordan,
Axios,
24 Mar. 2025
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By selecting various friends in her wanderings, Sophie’s mom had spawned not just one sort of crossbreed, but several in that same litter.—
Charles Hammer,
Kansas City Star,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The only other research dog breeder according to current USDA inventories is Oak Hill Genetics based in Franklin County in Illinois, which housed about 800 mongrel hound dogs in July.—
ByMeredith Wadman,
science.org,
28 Oct. 2024
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To continue playing the songs without that mongrel soul is just cash register stuff.—
Matt Thompson,
SPIN,
9 Jan. 2024
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Other architectural details reveal the building’s history, from the cross above Rumi Bar’s entrance from its time as a church to the remarkable archaeological discoveries made on-site, including ancient mummies.—
Jennifer Kester,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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On Saturday morning the funeral will begin with a procession, led by a priest carrying a cross, the New York Times reports.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Outcross.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outcross. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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