This focus on resource management could partly explain the government’s attempts to show action against graft.—Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 14 May 2024 Subsequent graft scandals in President Ulysses S. Grant’s Administration galvanized a national movement to clean up the federal government.—TIME, 14 May 2024
Verb
The team also wanted to graft fresh aspects to the story rather than rest on their laurels.—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024 As these conservative hinterland Turks began to enter the middle class and climb up the ladder of political power, the European identity that Ataturk grafted onto the nation became thinner with each passing decade, eventually falling away.—Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for graft
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Word History
Etymology
Noun (1) and Verb (1)
Middle English graffe, grafte, from Anglo-French greffe, graife stylus, graph, from Medieval Latin graphium, from Latin, stylus, from Greek grapheion, from graphein to write — more at carve
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