transplanted

Example Sentences

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Unlike other US towns, soccer is the dominant sport in Kearny, mostly due to Scottish and Irish immigrants who transplanted the game in the late 1800s as they arrived for factory jobs.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

As the mice aged, the researchers transplanted the stored samples back into the same animals through a process known as fecal microbiota transplantation, or FMT.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

But Georgie, from Liverpool, donated her hand to quadruple amputee Kim Smith, who had it transplanted last autumn.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

The challenge was to balance those two forces and rely on the transplanted immune system from my brother to keep the cancer in check—refinements Storb and his colleagues had been pursuing for years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

Professor McGonagall barked at the end of one particularly difficult lesson, during which Neville had accidentally transplanted his own ears onto a cactus.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling