as in stealing
dishonest activity in which people with power (such as political leaders) use their position and influence to get money and advantages
The newspaper published a series of articles exposing graft in the city government.
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Recent Examples of graft
ABC News,
12 June 2026
With each new iteration of transgenic pig, testing was required to assess the potential for graft survival and best use of immunosuppression.
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Joshua Mezrich,
STAT,
9 June 2026
Neil Sperry,
San Antonio Express-News,
20 Feb. 2026
Trends like it are too fleeting to support the kind of mythology that The Moment tries to graft onto it.
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Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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Noun
The free meals program, costing about 268 trillion rupiah ($15 billion) for this year alone, is aimed at alleviating poverty and malnutrition but Prabowo recently fired the head of the program amid a massive graft probe.
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ABC News,
12 June 2026
With each new iteration of transgenic pig, testing was required to assess the potential for graft survival and best use of immunosuppression.
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Joshua Mezrich,
STAT,
9 June 2026
Verb
There is no point in trying to graft them down lower.
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Neil Sperry,
San Antonio Express-News,
20 Feb. 2026
Trends like it are too fleeting to support the kind of mythology that The Moment tries to graft onto it.
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Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for graft
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Sale and Ventura engaged in a heated argument a few days later after Sale demanded Ventura call out the Tigers for the sign-stealing.
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Between November 2023 and January 2024, Jones had been listed as a suspect or subject in Kansas City Police Department reports, involving trespassing, residential burglary and stealing, according to the probable cause statement.
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One group counts $25 million in support from OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna, alongside $100 million tied to one of Silicon Valley’s biggest venture capital firms, which holds a large stake in OpenAI.
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That might be a tall order on the field after Lionel Messi’s record-tying hat trick against Algeria led Argentina to victory on Tuesday.
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After weeks of overnight fuel thefts, Rocklin police arrested a suspect during an early Thursday traffic stop, the department announced.
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Among the grounds listed are fraud, embezzlement, theft, misappropriation of district resources, breach of fiduciary duty, neglect of duties, criminal convictions, violations of law, policy violations, dishonesty, insubordination and failure to perform contractual obligations.
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To the eye, that’s obvious; as far as your vision can tell, all the planets and stars are mere dots of light affixed to a flat sky.
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Trump’s deputy chief of staff shared a video of the moment on social media, showing the President affixing his signature to a document in familiar Sharpie.
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Last year, Vietnam removed the death penalty for eight offenses including embezzlement.
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Among the grounds listed are fraud, embezzlement, theft, misappropriation of district resources, breach of fiduciary duty, neglect of duties, criminal convictions, violations of law, policy violations, dishonesty, insubordination and failure to perform contractual obligations.
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Manager John Schneider is now forced to shuffle players like Andrés Gimenez and Ernie Clement at shortstop, often platooning Gimenez, and inserting lesser hitters at second base.
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Fed watchers expect Warsh could pass on inserting his view on the future path of rates from the grid, which is watched closely on Wall Street but has had an uneven track record as a forecasting tool.
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The new headquarters opens as the department reports a 25 percent reduction in major crimes like murder, rape, robbery, and assaults over the last several years.
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Malepeai, her co-defendant Freddie Lee Davis III, and two others who avoided federal charges were identified by police as members of a robbery crew that committed violent purse snatchings around the Bay Area.
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Vermax was in dire trouble until Baela Targaryen (Bethany Antonia) heroically steered her Moondancer and broke the rope attached to the anchor.
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Her client’s closet filled with new items, the tags still attached.
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“Graft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graft. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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