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Noun
What to know Yanukovich is reviled by many in Ukraine not just for his graft but his rejection of closer ties with the EU in favor of Kyiv's relationship with Moscow which sparked Euromaidan protests in 2014.—Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025 At 30 days after implantation, nearly 92 percent of the vessels remained open and functioning, compared with 79 percent for synthetic grafts.—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2025
Verb
In his 2017 debut novel, American War, the conditions of terror and instability that define many of the places scarred by Western intervention are grafted onto an imagined future United States.—Hazlitt, 27 Feb. 2025 But there’s at least the chance that graft on the industrial scale at which Madigan operated is history.—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for graft
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1) and Verb (1)
Middle English graffe, grafte, from Anglo-French greffe, graife stylus, graph, from Medieval Latin graphium, from Latin, stylus, from Greek grapheion, from graphein to write — more at carve
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