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  • verb Present participle of domesticate.

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Examples

  • GRACE: Now, there ` s also the issue, James Neavitt, of what we call domesticating the California order.

    CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2007 2007

  • Communication (language and writing), farming, the idea of domesticating animals, etc, would place the Colonial colonists far above the natives.

    Brad Ideas - Comments 2010

  • The concept of "domesticating" potential terrorists may seem simplistic to critics, but Thayer points out that the Palestinian Liberation Organization served as a matchmaker to successfully fight growth of the rival group Black September, an offshoot of PLO that was infamous for killing Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

  • To Venuti, the act of creating a transparent translation is a "domesticating" act, in that you scrub out foreign elements, strange wording, different terms, any ambiguities that could confuse the reader, and so on, so that all that remains of the text are things that are familiar for the reader.

    AnimeBlogger.net Antenna 2009

  • "The system, or Ankara, has an assimilating and 'domesticating' mechanism.

    TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News 2008

  • The Land Institute is cross-breeding annual grains with perennial relatives, and domesticating perennials directly.

    Julie Brothers: Farm to Fork Across America: What's the Dirt Julie Brothers 2011

  • The Land Institute is cross-breeding annual grains with perennial relatives, and domesticating perennials directly.

    Julie Brothers: Farm to Fork Across America: What's the Dirt Julie Brothers 2011

  • The Land Institute is cross-breeding annual grains with perennial relatives, and domesticating perennials directly.

    Julie Brothers: Farm to Fork Across America: What's the Dirt Julie Brothers 2011

  • Over time, political, social and economic forces have brought us to a place where the working class (and to a surprising degree, the middle class) gets domesticating education and functional literacy, and the rich get empower education and powerful literacy.

    Miguel Guhlin: Nurture Human Talents Miguel Guhlin 2010

  • Second, there is domesticating education, which leads to functional literacy, literacy that makes a person productive and dependable but not troublesome.

    Miguel Guhlin: Nurture Human Talents Miguel Guhlin 2010

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