How to Use implant in a Sentence

implant

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  • Surgeons had to quickly implant a graft and a stent to shore it up.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 5 May 2022
  • The parents then choose an embryo to implant in the mother.
    — James Lee, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
  • So that would be the embryo that has yet to be implanted, and that's how the embryo was created.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The uterus transplant takes place and six months later, the embryo is implanted.
    — Williesha Morris | [email protected], al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • On average, about half of the eggs retrieved are mature enough to implant with sperm.
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2022
  • There, the tiny grains of shell were implanted in oysters to create cultured pearls.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But what if the process occurs a second time, after one egg has already implanted in the uterus?
    — Kathleen Felton, Health, 3 July 2023
  • The trial is meant to test the safety of both the link and the robotic surgery method Neuralink is pioneering to implant the device.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Ten to 15 of those embryos — based fully on the DNA from the dog being cloned — are then implanted into the uterus of a surrogate dog.
    — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • So, in August 2014, Winkler had surgery to implant the device.
    — Neil Bedi, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Instead, it’s implanted through a slit at the base of the neck and threaded up through the jugular vein into the motor cortex—the part of the brain that directs movement.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The case hinges on the argument that the state’s wrongful death statute should apply to embryos that have not yet been implanted in a woman’s uterus.
    — Amy Yurkanin | [email protected], al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Will patients be forced to donate or implant their embryos?
    — Beth Kowitt and paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 30 June 2022
  • That May, Catherine had titanium mesh implanted on the left side of her skull.
    — Lola Fadulu Kholood Eid, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • If a frozen embryo is viewed as a child, could it be interpreted as having a right to be implanted and born?
    — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Researchers implanted electrodes into the brains of adult rats.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The eggs were fertilized by male sperm cells and implanted in female mice's uteruses.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Vaccines are $10 each, and the clinic will implant and register microchips for $25.
    — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2023
  • Once those are in hand, the Chinese hackers essentially have the freedom to go anywhere in a network and implant their own code.
    — Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 29 July 2023
  • The resulting embryos are grown in a lab for a few days before being implanted in the uterus or frozen for a later transfer.
    — NBC News, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Our goal was to implant only embryos that were both disease-free and a genetic match for Henry.
    — Allen Goldberg, STAT, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Doctors generally implant one or two of those embryos in the uterus and freeze any that remain for the patient’s future use.
    — New York Times, 5 July 2022
  • The knowledge passed down to Bratton only goes so far with a new coaching staff as a divergent scheme is implanted this spring.
    — Evan Dudley, al, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Musk is hoping to implant something similar in your head.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • When the surgery to implant the electrodes is complete, doctors switch on the deep brain stimulation device.
    — NBC News, 29 Sep. 2021
  • If the first birth is successful and the mother desires a second child, a second embryo can be implanted in six months.
    — Williesha Morris | [email protected], al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Fetterman, 53, suffered a stroke last May while running for the Senate and had surgery to implant a pacemaker.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • So that line of thinking — that frozen embryos have a right to be implanted in order to be born — has already been tried in the U.S., and it wasn’t even refuted fully.
    — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Weber had surgery to implant a metal plate and eight screws in his neck; the injuries pushed him into an early retirement.
    — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Usually, even if many eggs are fertilized, less than half continue growing to the stage that they could be implanted.
    — Riley Griffin, arkansasonline.com, 26 Feb. 2024
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implant

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  • If the implant comes to full fruition, no need to carry medicine.
    — Dieynaba Young, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2021
  • The implant is also about the right size for the olfactory bulb on the edge of the brain.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Oct. 2022
  • After the implant helps the ACL heal itself, it is absorbed by the body.
    — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
  • But the new language decoder is one of the first to not rely on implants.
    — Oliver Whang, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • The breast implant had been dogged by ruptures and leaks in its early days.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 26 June 2023
  • Five years ago, a bionic eye implant allowed a blind man to see again for the first time in 40 years.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Oct. 2021
  • In his case, Lydell gets hair implants and a flashy new sports car.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But according to users, the implants still leave quite a bit to be desired.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Starting from the drilling of the implant, the entire process took over six months, including a 12-hour surgery to reroute all the nerves.
    — WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Elon Musk, co-founder of Neuralink, said the the first human has received an implant from the brain-chip startup.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The panel and the implants, made from the same material, can expand and contract at the same rate.
    — Christopher Knight, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • What's the difference between a breast lift and implants?
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The quarter-size chip implant has dozens of tiny threadlike electrodes.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Doctors first insert cartilage or an implant in the back of the ear, then fill it in with hyaluronic acid.
    — Andrews McMeel Syndication, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • Researchers hope brain implants will one day help people who have lost the ability to speak to get their voice back—and maybe even to sing.
    — Lucy Tu, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • For people with hearing loss, such implants feed information about sound to the inner ear and then to the brain.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The brain chip startup wants to use implants to connect your brain to a computer, a goal Musk has been working on for five years.
    — Jennifer Korn, CNN, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Your arm might feel a little sore or slightly swollen after your implant is placed.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 20 Mar. 2023
  • And unlike other implants, the neck detached at both ends to adjust the angle to better fit the patient.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2023
  • In the game, a mercenary outlaw named V is on the search for a one-of-a-kind implant that doubles as a key to immortality.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Or witness how technology can help the blind to see via an implant in the visual cortex.
    — Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Musk had assured the public that the testing on monkeys had been extremely careful, and none had died as a result of the implants.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Two years, surgery, and a permanent implant later, I’m left with an eye that can’t see much more than silhouettes.
    — Wil Sands, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
  • At the age of 50, every citizen gets a special implant that turns them into the food source for the next generation.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Neuralink's brain implant is meant to be inserted beneath the skull and the thin threads that protrude from it go directly into the brain.
    — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But the implant does not provide the full richness of sound — and is said to assist in hearing but without restoring it completely.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Loyola shared a video of the moment her implant was activated.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The researchers could not look for a change in those tracts with the treatment, however, because the participants could not be put in a brain scanner once the implant was in place.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Brain-computer interfaces have been around for a few decades, and there are different kinds of implants now.
    — Caitlin Kelly, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Synchron’s brain implant, the one Mark has, is called a Stentrode and consists of a stent with electrode sensors that can detect electrical brain activity.
    — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 28 Feb. 2024

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