grafting

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

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2026

Fatboy Slim, real name Norman Cook, created the track 25 years ago by grafting the riff from the Stones' Satisfaction onto his platinum-selling single The Rockafeller Skank, after he grew "bored" of playing the original.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

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

The procedure involves replacing a damaged ulnar collateral ligament in a player’s throwing elbow by grafting a tendon from the wrist of his non-throwing arm.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2024

Instead, those trees must be grown by the difficult technique of grafting, developed in China long after the beginnings of agriculture.

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