grafting
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of grafting
Example Sentences
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Fat grafting might sound intense, but it’s a kind of natural filler.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026
It made me think of orchardists past, piling their harvest into pies and preserves, or grafting tree after tree to keep a favored variety alive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Filmfare's Bikram Singh wrote that the major problem with the film was the "unsuccessful transplantation it attempts, grafting a western on the Indian milieu".
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
The procedure involves replacing a damaged ulnar collateral ligament in a player’s throwing elbow by grafting a tendon from the wrist of his non-throwing arm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024
What is it about those plants that kept their domestication beyond the reach of ancient farmers capable of mastering such difficult techniques as grafting?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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