engraft

Example Sentences

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My sister had adopted kids, and other people I knew had adopted kids, but I just couldn’t imagine that it could feel so engrafting.

From The Verge

But it can take about six weeks for cord blood cells to engraft, so she was also given partially matched blood stem cells from a first-degree relative.

From Seattle Times

Morality was "engrafted onto this disease that they did not understand very well", Prof Olivarius said, a pattern that has endured.

From BBC

Jefferson charged that the judiciary act was “a parasitical plant engrafted” on the “judicial body” as a last-ditch effort to thwart him.

From Washington Post

The authors took advantage of the fact that their cells carried fluorescent reporters to address this point, by purifying the cells before transplantation and engrafting only those that expressed LMX1A.

From Nature