implant
verb (used with object)
to put or fix firmly.
had implanted
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past perfectof implant.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Neuralink this week said it had implanted its technology in 21 patients as part of clinical trials.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 29, 2026
A fertilized egg had implanted in Colson’s uterus but did not grow into an embryo.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
Elon Musk said Neuralink had implanted its first device into a human brain.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
PIG-TO-HUMAN TRANSPLANTPhysicians at New York University last week announced they removed a genetically modified pig kidney they had implanted 2 months earlier in the body of a 58-year-old who had been declared neurologically dead.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 20, 2023
In less than twelve years they baptized with the name Aureliano and the last name of the mother all the sons that the colonel had implanted up and down his theater of war: seventeen.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
