transplanting

present participle of transplant

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of transplanting There has been some recent success transplanting pig kidneys and hearts into people, but this is believed to be the first attempt to transplant a pig lung into a human. Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transplanting
Verb
  • Begging or drunkenness could mean a week to a couple of months on a chain gang, grading and paving roads, fixing bridges, hauling debris, and otherwise helping to construct the fast-growing city.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off.
    J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Crossbody Bag Make transporting your items and safety a priority with a reliable crossbody bag.
    Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Texas lawmakers rejected both the Smithsonian's cost estimates of transporting Discovery and the museum's legal claim of ownership.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The indictment charges Bolton with eight counts of transmitting national defense information and 10 counts of unlawfully retaining such information.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Eduardo Aguilar, who was living in Dallas, is charged with transmitting in interstate or foreign commerce a communication containing a threat, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Police reportedly located the woman after reviewing a two-second security camera video clip, in which she was allegedly seen on a city sidewalk carrying something that appeared to be wrapped in a bundle and holding it as a person would typically hold a baby.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Both Barrett and Ingram spent some time carrying all-bench units, but those should be infrequent units so long as the Raptors are largely healthy.
    Eric Koreen, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Some carried American flags or dressed in whimsical costumes, but the majority held signs conveying pro-democracy and anti-Trump messages.
    Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The cameos could be read as objects, pieces conveying a subversion of Victorian values.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In June 2024, the district's administrative team recommended the board consider a seventh- through 12th-grade school configuration by relocating the two middle schools inside the existing Wauwatosa East and Wauwatosa West high school facilities.
    Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Other stores in the shopping center, meanwhile, have already begun the process of relocating.
    Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Besides regularly removing dust that forms on the fan blades, cleaning needs can also change with the seasons.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Scientists at the University of Surrey have discovered a simple tweak that could boost sodium-ion battery performance, by leaving water inside a key component rather than removing it.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Bruce Owens, 49, of Paragould, who was driving the Hyundai, and a minor who was riding in the Jeep and not identified in the report were injured, the report says.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025
  • After the video spread on social media, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a post on X that the arrest came as US Border Patrol was driving around conducting immigration enforcement.
    Josh Campbell, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025

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“Transplanting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transplanting. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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