have domesticated

• present perfect

  present perfect

  Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.

  of domesticate.
  domesticate

  verb (used with object)

  to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.

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have domesticated

And because humans may have domesticated themselves when they began living in close-knit groups, such studies could even provide insight into the evolution of our own minds.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023

Although Loth-cats usually live in the wild, Ahsoka’s wayward apprentice Sabine Wren appears to have domesticated at least one of them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

The young Canadian painter Matthew Wong has an illustrator’s vivid sense of color and an obsessiveness he seems to have domesticated into a resource.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2018

But the definition still holds if you consider that people, like cats and dogs, may have domesticated themselves.

From Time ● Apr. 13, 2014

They had no beasts of burden; and, though there were animals in the country which they probably might have domesticated and milked, they had no idea of anything of the kind.

From Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern by Edward Burnett Tylor

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