How to Use translocation in a Sentence
translocation
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Time will ultimately tell the tale of the translocation tape.
— Dallas News, 20 June 2020 -
A translocation of this scale has never been done before.
— David McKenzie, CNN, 29 June 2017 -
With these translocations, the gene pool of the animals is expanding.
— Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2019 -
Parke said the state will examine the data from the project to decide it additional translocation of quail should be done.
— Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 2 May 2018 -
There are three types of Down syndrome: translocation, mosaicism and trisomy 21.
— Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 28 May 2021 -
Less common types of Down syndrome are translocation and mosaicism.
— Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2023 -
With its success, everyone involved is hopeful this translocation is the first of many.
— Catherine Garcia, The Week, 20 July 2023 -
This sort of translocation process en masse could not have occurred simply through the ingenuity of groups of a few families.
— Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011 -
She has also been involved with fund-raising for anti-poaching efforts and the translocation of rhinos from South Africa to Botswana.
— New York Times, 6 May 2018 -
The translocation of elephants takes months to plan, but each capture takes just minutes, everything done to minimize risk to both human and beast.
— David McKenzie, CNN, 29 June 2017 -
The translocation came on the heels of nearly a decade of declining white rhino numbers due, in large part, to criminal poaching in southern Africa.
— Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2021 -
When that did not come to pass, the idea of translocation was not raised prominently again until a symposium in 2009 organized by the Wildlife Trust of India in Rajasthan.
— Hari Kumar, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022 -
Wild turkeys, white-tailed deer and bighorn sheep represent three of Texas’ greatest wildlife translocation stories.
— Dallas News, 20 June 2020 -
The hormone product used during propagation will not persist in the plant long enough to cause any translocation to the fruit, as fruiting happens a long time after the plant is rooted.
— oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2022 -
This newer translocation was no more welcome than landing in Italy three years earlier.
— Andre Aciman, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2019 -
For more information and to subscribe for elk translocation updates, visit the DNR’s elk webpage.
— Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2022 -
This is known as translocation: Particularly small particles might pass through the gut wall and end up in other organs, including the brain.
— Matt Simon, Wired, 22 Sep. 2021 -
Moreover, even if the will existed to save the thousands of species threatened by climate change by moving them all, is such large-scale translocation really possible?
— Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023 -
The trip follows the translocation journey, from South Africa to Rwanda, with game drives, walking safaris and researcher-led lion tracking trips that illustrate the ins and outs of big-cat conservation.
— Stephanie Vermillion, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2023 -
Precautions were taken to minimize stress and ensure their well-being throughout the translocation process.
— Washington Post, 25 June 2019 -
This gut leakiness can lead to bacterial translocation inside the body.
— Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 2 Nov. 2020 -
But many questions remain, and this summer Idaho and Utah wildlife officials hope to get answers by netting hundreds of these lake trout for study and translocation to another Idaho lake.
— Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021 -
The second: the translocation of manufacturing and labor.
— Quartz, 15 Nov. 2022 -
In Empires and Barbarians the historian Peter Heather suggests that these sorts of ethnic shifts were a matter of the translocation of militarized mobile elites.
— Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2011 -
Researchers also found abnormalities such as inversions and translocations in some of Scott’s chromosomes and some damage to his DNA, as well as changes in his gene expression.
— Bill Ingalls, National Geographic, 11 Apr. 2019 -
The cats are among the initial ones introduced in India under Project Cheetah, the first intercontinental translocation initiative of its kind.
— Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 11 Feb. 2023 -
This program helps ensure that turtles are taken care of during the nesting season, including clutch translocation into a turtle camp until the baby turtles hatch.
— Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021 -
Dr Trask’s ultimate goal is to develop a conservation translocation plan to reintroduce Guam kingfishers back into the wild.
— Grrlscientist, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021 -
On the surface, such translocations constitute a valuable effort to protect animals facing habitat loss or other dangers.
— Jacob Brogan, Smithsonian, 1 June 2017 -
On the surface, such translocations constitute a valuable effort to protect animals facing habitat loss or other dangers.
— Jacob Brogan, Smithsonian, 1 June 2017
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