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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

The EU Erasmus exchange programme has transplanted more than 3.3 million students, and 470,000 teaching and administrative staff, since 1987.

From Nature • Jun. 14, 2016

Dr. Douglass Turnbull of Newcastle University in Britain, whose team has transplanted DNA between eggs using a different technique, called the new research "very important and encouraging" in showing that such transplants could work.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2012

If a cultivator has transplanted his tobacco or other valuable plant, he collects old cracked earthen cooking-pots, and places a spot of limestone whiting on the well-blackened bottom of each.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 by Chambers, William