transplant
verb (used with object)
to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
has transplanted
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present perfectof transplant (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Now, DiPietro has transplanted Fielding's Tom Jones into swinging 1960s London for a stage musical soundtracked by the swinging hits of Sir Tom Jones.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2021
Kentridge has transplanted “Wozzeck” from the early-nineteenth-century setting of Berg’s libretto to the period of the First World War.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020
Basbaum has transplanted GABA-producing neurons from mouse embryos to successfully treat a mouse model of neuropathic pain7.
From Nature ● Sep. 10, 2019
Jerry Colangelo recognizes two tenets that Griffin has transplanted to Cleveland from Phoenix: How a player fits into a team is more important than name recognition.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2017
It may be some dear, innocent babe God has transplanted.
From Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Retta Babcock
