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transplanted

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verb

past tense of transplant

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Recent Examples of transplanted
Adjective
As seen in the videos she's been posting about her transformation online, the hair growing out of her transplanted hair follicles started growing out gray shortly after the surgery. Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 18 Apr. 2026 Major league baseball came to California as the transplanted Giants and Dodgers played the first game on the Pacific Coast. Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026 The labs at Iowa used to get 30 to 35 lungs a year for study from transplanted patients. Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026 The lawsuit claimed Chaudhry then determined the transplanted organ needed to be removed. Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch, 13 Mar. 2026 The median survival time for transplanted lungs is about eight years, UCSF's Gandhi said. Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026 Over several days of testing the MacBook Neo, I’ve rarely been held back by its transplanted iPhone brain. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026 The biggest concern is that immune cells from his sister’s transplanted tissue are recognized as foreign and are attacked, which is known as graft-versus-host disease. Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2026 The transplanted hair remains permanent. Emrah Cinik, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transplanted
Verb
  • Hometown’s plan is to find more opportunities like that, Garber said, where Next Pro teams can be both rebranded and relocated to reach new communities of soccer fans.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • His wife at the time, Jenny Sanford, moved out of the governor’s mansion in Columbia, relocated with their four sons into the family’s beachfront home near Charleston and later sued him for divorce.
    ABC News, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • About 20 million naturalized Americans now must worry that any mistake in their decades-old immigration paperwork could cost them their citizenship.
    Cassandra Burke Robertson, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2026
  • While serving in the National Guard, Noel became a naturalized citizen, worked several jobs, and earned an associate’s degree.
    Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • About Averitt Express Averitt was started in 1958 as Livingston Merchant’s Co-op, a small trucking company that hauled dry goods in Tennessee, according to the company’s website.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 29 Apr. 2026
  • On the north side of Texas 114, trucks hauled trailers filled with debris or were empty waiting to be loaded.
    Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Groceries average about $300 per month, and while imported foods come at a premium, the ability to pick up Mediterranean staples adds an unexpected layer of excitement to island life.
    Dana Sauchelli, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2026
  • This marks a dramatic turnaround from earlier years when imported titles commanded roughly double the audience of domestic productions.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Rabies is transmitted through a bat’s saliva.
    Heather McRea, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
  • At a first-principles level, a culture that cannot be transmitted is not a culture.
    Richard P. Weigand, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The officers had transported the suspect, who had been arrested on suspicion of robbery, to the hospital for observation.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Investigators said officers caught up to one of the two suspects, took him into custody, and transported him to Swedish Hospital under police guard for treatment for an unspecified ailment.
    Darius Johnson, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The plan, conveyed through mediators in Pakistan to break a stalemate with Washington, calls for extending the ceasefire so the parties can work toward a permanent end to the fighting, Axios said.
    Jon Herskovitz, Bloomberg, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Propaganda was the art that conveyed—through emotions and even spirituality, not intellect—the all-encompassing ideology that ruled one’s life.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The plane returned to the gate and the passenger was removed, according to Delta, which apologized to customers for the experience and delay.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Items of value, particularly smaller things that could be easily removed or concealed, should always be carried in person or within carry-on bags.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026

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“Transplanted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transplanted. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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