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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Trump hasn’t posted about a ‘fork and spoon’ hybrid Trump repeatedly promised to close the federal Department of Education during his campaign, though doing so would require Congress to pass legislation.—
Chris Mueller,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2025
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The commercial is narrated by Harrison Ford over a montage of the Wrangler's Hemi and plug-in hybrid models.—
Kyle Stock and Brian Kahn Bloomberg News (WPNS),
arkansasonline.com,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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To add to the surprise, some crossbreeds may even grow larger than either parent.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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Dani was a 30-year-old Clydesdale/Hackney crossbreed who'd been at Maymont since 2004.—
Karri Peifer,
Axios,
15 Jan. 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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Herzog has chosen to retain one of Ibsen’s thorniest speeches, a diatribe about social evolution in which Stockmann talks of the difference between mongrel dogs and pedigree breeds as an analogy for the uneducated masses and the elite intelligentsia.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Noun
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An influx of political appointees would weaken those safeguards, potentially leaving Democratic donors in the cross hairs.—
STEVEN LEVITSKY,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Feb. 2025
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Ronnie wore a white robe and cradled a cross in his arms.—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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“Outcross.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outcross. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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