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domesticates
noun
Plural of domesticate
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Biologists call them "commensal domesticates," meaning that they can live with humans, and yet, unlike most other domesticated species, they can revert at any time to feral status.
It domesticates, quite literally, what was once seen as a threat.Precisely the fear of being domesticated led many gay activists, at the time of The Economist's cover, to support the idea of marriage equality warily, if at all.
To that end, Microsoft is spending many billions in an effort to "humanise the user interface".Anything that domesticates the PC will be welcome, but it is unlikely to prevent a shift of the kind that so many others are predicting.
Within five centuries, clear domesticates and a village-based agricultural way of life had been established on a coastal plain to the north at Nea Nikomedia (Macedonia).
At this time, domesticates formed only a small portion of the total diet, the bulk of which was derived from wild animals and, to a lesser extent, wild plants.
The studio recording offers the sense of abstraction — it distills much of what Coltrane was doing in concert performances, it suggests it, it signifies it, but the album also domesticates it.
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They concluded that one of the earliest societies to domesticate the ancestors of modern domestic horses (Equus caballus) was the Botai Culture of Kazakhstan on the Eurasian Steppe about 3500 bce (5500 bp).
It is hard to argue that this is because the people living there were better at domesticating wild animals; no big new domestications have taken place since the peoples of Europe spread around the world.All this explains why the world's dominant form of agriculture developed in the fertile crescent.
Several other newspapers, including the right-wing Le Figaro, reported the same facts with a shiver of horror, adding that the crowds had been chanting "A bas l'état, les flics et les patrons" ("Down with the state, the coppers and the bosses"), thereby domesticating the riot as part of the Parisian folklore of rebellion.
"There are no strategic thinkers in the system," argues Richard Haass, the director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution.It is unfair to blame the officials alone for domesticating foreign policy.
It was a fitting metaphor for the site's attempts to domesticate the still-wild internet, and typical of its low-budget, user-generated early content.
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