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Synonyms: Noun
cross, crossbred, crossbreed, intercross, mongrel
Synonyms: Adjective
cold-blooded (or coldblood), cross, crossbred, mixed, mongrel
Antonyms: Adjective
blooded, full-blood, full-blooded, purebred, thoroughbred
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Examples of hybrid in a Sentence
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a hybrid of two roses The band plays a hybrid of jazz and rock.Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
The mark was a hybrid between a comma and a colon, and its purpose was to prolong a pause or create a more distinct separation between parts of a sentence. — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, "Sympathy for the Semicolon," 15 July 2019 The performance will be a hybrid of DJing and live performance to bring fresh interpretations of old songs and new material. — Kat Bein, Billboard, "Elephante Announces Diamond Days 2019 Tour As 'The Natural Evolution': Exclusive," 10 July 2019 The North Shore graduate is a hybrid outside linebacker-defensive end prospect who declared early for the draft. — Aaron Wilson, Houston Chronicle, "Kansas' Dorance Armstrong visits Rams, Bills, Seahawks, works out for Patriots, Texans," 17 Apr. 2018 DANCE DJ-cum-sneakerhead Zedd came out to Brooklyn’s 1Hotel on Monday (August 5) in celebration of Columbia Sportswear’s new SH/FT line, a collection of new sneaker/hiking shoe hybrids. — Hannah Malach, Billboard, "Zedd Talks Upcoming Orbit Tour & Testing Out Columbia's New Shoe Line: 'To Me, Shoes Are Art'," 7 Aug. 2019 The Salk Institute’s Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte has been working with researchers in China to produce human-monkey chimeras or hybrid embryos. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Biotech Notebook: Human-monkey chimeras, outsmarting outbreaks, Alzheimer’s and more.," 2 Aug. 2019 Earlier this year, Joanna Jasińska reports for Polish outlet the First News, scientists working out of the country’s Chorzów zoo successfully transferred a hybrid embryo into a southern female. — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, "Artificially Conceived Southern White Rhino Offers Hope for Critically Endangered Cousin," 1 Aug. 2019 That, too, was probably behind the hybrid deadlines for the Giants and Mets, who both bought and sold, ostensibly to be flexible but likely an admission that spending your chips on a longshot is a fool’s gamble. — Jon Tayler, SI.com, "Biggest Questions Remaining After the MLB Trade Deadline," 1 Aug. 2019 Eitvydas Bajarunas, the Lithuanian foreign ministry’s top official for hybrid threats, tells the story of men spotted in a wooded area near Vilnius. — The Economist, "How the Baltic states spot the Kremlin’s agents," 1 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Those included jobs in renewable energy, like installing solar and wind power, building electric and hybrid vehicles, doing energy efficiency work in buildings, manufacturing clean fuels and building battery storage projects. — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, "New report: California has five times more clean energy jobs than fossil fuel jobs," 20 Aug. 2019 In terms of market share, too, the homegrown player with a hybrid subscription model that charges users only for premium content such as HBO’s Game of Thrones, among other things, leads by a long shot. — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, "For Netflix, being a premium service in India has its perks," 11 July 2019 To make handling a heavy duffel easier, manufacturers offer wheeled duffels, or hybrid versions with shoulder straps. — Houston Chronicle, "Head out with the best travel gear, whether on the road or in the air," 27 June 2019 Within a few years, almost every car company began offering hybrid models. 33. — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, "49 environmental victories since the first Earth Day," 22 Apr. 2019 BYD Auto, the biggest global electric brand by number sold, presented two hybrid SUVs and an electric concept car at the show. — Washington Post, "Chinese automaker plans electric car production in SAfrica," 25 Apr. 2018 BYD Auto, the biggest global electric brand by number sold, presented two hybrid SUVs and an electric concept car at the show. — Joe Mcdonald, The Christian Science Monitor, "Chinese automakers' influence grows in electric vehicle industry," 25 Apr. 2018 Human–animal hybrid embryos have been made in countries such as the United States, but never brought to term. — David Cyranoski, Scientific American, "Japan Approves First Human-Animal Embryo Experiments," 9 Aug. 2019 Automakers like Volkswagen, Daimler, BMW, and even American stalwarts Ford and General Motors have responded by promising to introduce dozens of new electric and hybrid models. — Alex Davies, WIRED, "An Old-School Auto Supplier Is Betting on an Electric Future," 8 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hybrid.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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