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breed, enroot, inculcate, infix, inseminate, instill, plant, sow
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a hearing aid that is surgically implanted in the ear a music teacher who strove to implant within his students a love of the classicsRecent Examples on the Web: Verb
Bloomberg had reported that in addition to targeting Apple and Amazon Web Services, Chinese intelligence had managed to get implanted hardware inside an unnamed major telecommunications provider. — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, "Audit: No Chinese surveillance implants in Supermicro boards found," 11 Dec. 2018 On Valentine's Day 2017, Hyland had a port implanted into her chest to begin the dialysis process. — Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, "Sarah Hyland Talks to 'Self' About Her Second Kidney Transplant and Suicidal Thoughts," 10 Dec. 2018 People undergoing fertility treatments that include IVF can have embryos tested for deadly gene mutations that run in the family, such as Huntington’s disease, and then implant only the embryos that lack such mutations. — Malcolm Ritter, The Seattle Times, "Q&A on scientist’s bombshell claim of gene-edited babies," 28 Nov. 2018 Then the healthiest embryo was implanted into Ashleigh's uterus at the right moment in her cycle. — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, "These Two Women Both ‘Carried’ Their Baby Using Reciprocal Effortless IVF," 16 Nov. 2018 Could other trackers, or even malware, be implanted? — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, "Cheese danish shipping, warrantless GPS trackers, and a border doctrine challenge," 2 Sep. 2018 The mesh is implanted to support weakened or damaged tissue to treat poor bladder control and organ prolapse. — Marian Liu, CNN, "Australia investigates implants that left some women with 'rotting pelvises'," 28 Mar. 2018 Surgeons are trained in virtual reality on how to implant the device that contains the drug and also how to refill the device. — Sara Castellanos, WSJ, "Genentech Uses Virtual Reality to Train Eye Surgeons," 6 Feb. 2019 The next step is to implant these embryos into surrogate southern females over the coming months, paper co-author Cesare Galli tells Yin, hopefully triggering the birth of a healthy hybrid calf. — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, "With Hybrid Embryo, Scientists Are One Step Closer to Saving the Northern White Rhino," 5 July 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Other technologies, involving things like microchip implants, fingerprint scans, and facial recognition, are even eliminating the need for phones and smartwatches. — Town & Country, "Is This the End of Cash?," 28 Jan. 2019 If not, an IUD or an implant may be a better choice for you. — Molly Finneseth, Glamour, "How to Be Prepared if Roe v. Wade Is Overturned," 22 Jan. 2019 This meant that IUDs and implants — the most effective, reversible contraceptives — became a lot more affordable for American women. — Sarah Kliff, Vox, "The American abortion rate is at an all-time low," 3 Dec. 2018 Silicone sounds like the correct substance to use–but this is not the same as silicone implants used for breast and buttock enhancement procedures. — Blake Bakkila, Health.com, "Why Cardi B’s Scary Butt Injection Procedure Could Actually Be Life-Threatening," 11 Apr. 2018 When using a smart watch, a smart implant or even use your phone, signals are used to communicate information. — Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, "Third group of Cleveland Plug and Play presenters focus on finance, Internet of Things," 1 Mar. 2018 Many of the newer advanced technology implants reduce the patient’s dependence on glasses post-operatively, but never completely eliminate it. — WSJ, "See What Cataract Surgery May Also Involve," 28 Nov. 2018 Creating a seamless interface between human and machine invokes images of brain implants and cutting-edge prosthetics. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "Short-Term Superhuman: If We Create Augmented Soldiers, Can We Turn Them Back?," 25 Sep. 2018 About half the cost of a surgical implant goes toward paying sales and marketing staff, who develop close relationships with doctors and sometimes even attend surgery, Lichtenthal said. — Liz Szabo, Washington Post, "Sticker Shock Jolts Oklahoma Patient: $15,076 For Four Tiny Screws," 14 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'implant.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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