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domesticating

  • present participle
    of domesticate.
    domesticate
    verb (used with object)
    to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.

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UFO mythology, and especially its mock-scientific terminology, is a way of domesticating the unknown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

"At Titicaca, Andeans accomplished the remarkable achievement of domesticating plants like the potato, leaving behind a nutritious legacy that is still appreciated today," he said.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023

To Linklater, this raises the concern that dehorning might be inadvertently domesticating rhinos, because the rhinos that are most wild and can least acclimate to capture would be least likely to survive and breed.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 11, 2023

Where the peoples of the steppes pioneered was in domesticating the horse, giving them a significant military advantage over their neighbors.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Neither did thrushes set out with the intent of domesticating strawberries.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond