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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

But whereas people artificially selected against aggressive traits when domesticating dogs, similar changes seem to have happened naturally in bonobos—a process known as “self-domestication” that might also have occurred in humans.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 12, 2024

"These people were living a primarily hunting-and-gathering lifestyle and probably had only recently begun growing crops and domesticating animals."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024

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