The findings suggest millennials have been broken down by years of unrewarded graft and have formed a detachment from their personal happiness in the workplace, meaning a deprioritization of their happiness for 40 hours a week.—Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 26 June 2024 The internal brace procedure repairs the UCL and then reinforces it with a tape-like suture instead of fixing it through a full reconstruction like Tommy John, which replaces the existing ligament with a graft usually taken from the pitcher’s hamstring tendon.—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2024
Verb
Each was eight hours as doctors grafted skin from the 25 percent of his body that remained untouched.—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 7 May 2024 The team also wanted to graft fresh aspects to the story rather than rest on their laurels.—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for graft
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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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