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graft

[graft, grahft] / græft, grɑft /




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Some of these technocrats have been purged in the past two years amid a crackdown on graft in China’s military and defense industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

And he never stopped, partly because graft is hard to root out from the system.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

Mayor of Turkey's largest and richest city until his arrest, Imamoglu is facing allegations ranging from graft to embezzlement and espionage, alongside 407 other defendants, in an indictment that runs nearly 4,000 pages.

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

Researchers estimate that more than two million people worldwide require bone graft procedures each year.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

I didn't till the soil or weed the flowerbeds or try to graft a tree limb; I sat in the shade and listened to my Japanese language instruction.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan