transplanted

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Breadnut and its cousin, breadfruit, were transplanted from the Pacific to the Caribbean to become food staples for enslaved populations there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Unlike other US towns, soccer is the dominant sport in Kearny, mostly due to Scottish and Irish immigrants who transplanted the game in the late 1800s as they arrived for factory jobs.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

As the mice aged, the researchers transplanted the stored samples back into the same animals through a process known as fecal microbiota transplantation, or FMT.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2026

Just one in 10 lungs and one in seven hearts are transplanted.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

A young transplanted Kentuckian living in an impoverished pocket of Cincinnati among families of similar background once said to me, “I never knew I was urban-Appalachian till I read it in a magazine.”

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times