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  • noun Plural form of implant.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implant.

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Examples

  • Have I allowed the technology to get under my skin, as it were, much like the promise (or threat) of brain implants, which will be appearing in an occipital lobe near you, very soon?

    Stephen Balkam: Phantoms and Hamlet's Blackberry Stephen Balkam 2010

  • Have I allowed the technology to get under my skin, as it were, much like the promise (or threat) of brain implants, which will be appearing in an occipital lobe near you, very soon?

    Stephen Balkam: Phantoms and Hamlet's Blackberry Stephen Balkam 2010

  • Have I allowed the technology to get under my skin, as it were, much like the promise (or threat) of brain implants, which will be appearing in an occipital lobe near you, very soon?

    Stephen Balkam: Phantoms and Hamlet's Blackberry Stephen Balkam 2010

  • Simply put, it's titanium on steroids; it has all the best properties of titanium (think about your golf clubs), but because its internal structure is modified, it's several times as strong, bonds more quickly to human bone and is expected to last much longer than existing alloys currently used in implants and prosthetic devices.

    Using Cold War Tech For Peacetime Healing Terry Lowe 2010

  • Have I allowed the technology to get under my skin, as it were, much like the promise (or threat) of brain implants, which will be appearing in an occipital lobe near you, very soon?

    Stephen Balkam: Phantoms and Hamlet's Blackberry Stephen Balkam 2010

  • I hear they take the stuff for the implants from the fat off your arse.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Sweet jeebus, lookit this mess! 2009

  • Have I allowed the technology to get under my skin, as it were, much like the promise (or threat) of brain implants, which will be appearing in an occipital lobe near you, very soon?

    Stephen Balkam: Phantoms and Hamlet's Blackberry Stephen Balkam 2010

  • Have I allowed the technology to get under my skin, as it were, much like the promise (or threat) of brain implants, which will be appearing in an occipital lobe near you, very soon?

    Stephen Balkam: Phantoms and Hamlet's Blackberry Stephen Balkam 2010

  • In short-term implants in four different rats, engineered lungs replaced one of the animals 'native lungs and proved 95 percent as efficient at exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide, Niklason said.

    Rat Lung Grown In Laboratory 2010

  • Recovery time for calf and pec implants is a couple of weeks.

    How Far Would You Go To Get Taller? | Disinformation 2008

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