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grafting

[graf-ting, grahf-] / ˈgræf tɪŋ, ˈgrɑf- /


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Fat grafting might sound intense, but it’s a kind of natural filler.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2026

The years have ticked by, three of them since he last kicked a ball, but every day spent grafting in the gym is one Gerard Deulofeu believes he is a step closer to a "miracle".

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

Yet they were also influential in pushing reggae into modernity, using digital instrumentation on Chaka Demus & Pliers’ 1993 smash “Murder She Wrote” and grafting their textures into the Fugees’ bestselling LP “The Score.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

It made me think of orchardists past, piling their harvest into pies and preserves, or grafting tree after tree to keep a favored variety alive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Even though Rome’s apples were at least native to western Eurasia, they were grown by means of grafting techniques that had developed in China and spread westward from there.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond