grafting

Example Sentences

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Fat grafting might sound intense, but it’s a kind of natural filler.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2026

Yet they were also influential in pushing reggae into modernity, using digital instrumentation on Chaka Demus & Pliers’ 1993 smash “Murder She Wrote” and grafting their textures into the Fugees’ bestselling LP “The Score.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

It made me think of orchardists past, piling their harvest into pies and preserves, or grafting tree after tree to keep a favored variety alive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

"Where can we start to build up that ladder to headliner status? It's hard, and we've been grafting at this for years now."

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2024

Instead, those trees must be grown by the difficult technique of grafting, developed in China long after the beginnings of agriculture.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond