graft
Example Sentences
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He doesn’t abandon art, but he can’t summon the urge to sell himself or his work, to graft his joy in making things onto the caprices of the marketplace.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
You’ve done the hard graft at $14 an hour.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026
"I liked that the owners have a similar background to me - hard work, graft, underdogs nobody believed in - but they created a really successful business," he said.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
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
Then he covered the open wound with a temporary graft of pig skin.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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