- present participle of transplant.
transplanting
Example Sentences
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Clutching a mysterious tool the shape of a mouse coffin, Firth’s villain tracks Daniel’s location by mentally transplanting himself into another person’s body, changing the color of their pupils to his own icy blue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
In practice, he argues, many innovations grow out of existing ones, often by borrowing or transplanting concepts from one field to another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Both have since died but helped advance xenotransplantation - the transplanting of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
"We found that people were actively transplanting and cultivating hazelnuts hundreds of kilometers from their place of origin," Armstrong explains of the expansive trade activity the maps illustrated.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2024
He panicked, removed the cells, and hadn’t tried transplanting skin cells since.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
