Is it because violence has literally been bred out of us, leaving us more peaceful by nature?

WSJ: Steven Pinker: Why Violence Is Vanishing

Turkeys have had most of the wildness bred out of them.

NPR: Wild Things Thanksgiving

The kind that is bred out of desperation, out of the knowledge that you have to laugh, you have to keep it together because you don't have a choice.

CNN: Analysis: Baghdad weary amid pullout and death

The rampant overuse bred ever stronger resistance by wiping out weaker strains that otherwise might compete with the drug- resistant variants, leaving only the balkiest bugs to take hold.

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When it didn't work out and her formula-bred daughter grew up just fine, she didn't feel the same pressure the second time around.

WSJ: One Sure Formula for Controversy

Chris Sperring from the Hawk and Owl Trust said the loss of traditional nesting sites meant about four out of five barn owl pairs now bred in boxes.

BBC: Barn owl at a farm

Five years ago Pioneer Hi-Bred International (a subsidiary of DuPont) figured out how to slide a critical gene from corn into sorghum to make a variant with more lysine--an essential amino acid.

FORBES: Chutzpah Science

Lamb, who was born and bred in Gloucester, has had off-field troubles and fell out of favour with Cherry and Whites coach Dean Ryan, but Booth is confident he can help the fly-half flourish.

BBC: London Irish sign fly-half Lamb

In 2007 the situation came to a head when clashes broke out between Fatah al Islam, a Palestinian jihadist group, and the Lebanese army at the Nahr al Bred refugee camp near Tripoli.

CNN: Refugee United: Palestinians debut at Homeless World Cup