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grafting

verb

present participle of graft
as in inserting

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grafting
  1. inserting
  2. attaching
  3. tying
  4. affixing
  5. adding
  6. injecting
  7. adjoining
  8. tagging
Verb
  • Fashion is increasingly appealing to consumers — and investors — by very consciously inserting itself into the cultural conversation.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The coaching staff demonstrated this by immediately inserting Lemon into the first-team offense upon his return and playing him throughout the first half of the preseason finale against the Cincinnati Bengals.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of inserting
Verb
  • For easy carrying, the tool features a lanyard hole and a clip for attaching it to a pocket or backpack.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2026
  • How floating solar panels work Instead of attaching panels to racks planted in the ground, engineers mount them on floating platforms.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of attaching
Verb
  • The Royals left the tying run stranded on second base as Pirates closer Mason Montgomery retired Salvador Perez, Maikel Garcia and Loftin to end a late threat.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Three times the Giants rallied to tie the game only to see the Dodgers retake the lead, highlighted by Victor Bericoto's game-tying, 425-foot two-run homer in the third.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of tying
Verb
  • Benya and other pyrotechnicians were wiring up hundreds of racks of comets—which resembled opaque, oversized test tubes—affixing them to plywood slabs and placing them on the duvetyn.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The math world just got a new genius—a prodigy who announced himself by affixing his name to his signature feat of numerical prowess.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 13 July 2026
Definition of affixing
Verb
  • The 2009 recession, financial rescue packages, and the COVID-19 pandemic which started in 2020 were responsible for adding trillions to this debt.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Earlier attempts to solve the problem have included adding surplus lithium or placing thick protective coatings on the electrode.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of adding
Verb
  • Guzman was also charged with possessing a device for using, injecting or ingesting drugs, according to the complaint.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The prosecution had stated that Letby had killed some of the babies by injecting air into their bloodstreams; the argument relied, largely, on a 1989 paper that described the symptoms of air embolisms in newborns.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of injecting
Verb
  • Undeterred, the three friends bought the hotel and adjoining property for $3 million and have since spent over $10 million on renovations and redesign.
    — Madeleine Kashkooli, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The film could use a few more such colorful secondary strands adjoining the main conflict, though one subplot involving a maybe-romance between two jaded journalists assigned to the summit is oddly framed and abruptly dropped.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of adjoining
Verb
  • Lehrer later posted the segment on social media, tagging Yair Netanyahu, the Prime Minister’s son.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Future research, potentially tagging myrtle warblers directly on the California wintering grounds, will shed more light on this population and why certain individuals follow a different migration route.
    — Stephanie Szarmach, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of tagging
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“Grafting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grafting. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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