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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of translocate.

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Examples

  • It appears that areas adjacent to CWD-positivewildlife, areas with concentrations of farmed or captive elk anddeer, and areas that have received translocated cervids from CWDinfectedareas may be at higher risk for introduction of the disease.

    Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City 2009

  • It appears that areas adjacent to CWD-positivewildlife, areas with concentrations of farmed or captive elk anddeer, and areas that have received translocated cervids from CWDinfectedareas may be at higher risk for introduction of the disease.

    Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City 2009

  • The artist pictured right has not only translocated and expanded a work he made for the Istanbul Biennale in 2003, but given us a prosaic ruin.

    Venice Biennale: Mike Nelson's British Pavilion – review 2011

  • Â The entire planet, including Mon-El, have been translocated to the Phantom Zone, and once again, Lar Gand has sacrificed himself so that the universe can be a safer place.

    Hero History: Mon-El | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • In a modern twist of the adage about a weed being simply a plant in the wrong place, large numbers of species—potential garden ornaments or food crops—have been translocated, only to turn into aggressive fifth columnists.

    Why We Must Learn to Love Weeds Richard Mabey 2011

  • In a bewildering spurt over just two decades, scientists had unveiled a fantastical new world—of errant oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes that accelerated and decelerated growth to unleash cancer; of chromosomes that could be decapitated and translocated to create new genetic chimeras, of cellular pathways corrupted to subvert the death of cancer.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • In a bewildering spurt over just two decades, scientists had unveiled a fantastical new world—of errant oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes that accelerated and decelerated growth to unleash cancer; of chromosomes that could be decapitated and translocated to create new genetic chimeras, of cellular pathways corrupted to subvert the death of cancer.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Two weeks ago, under a practically full moon, I stood on a beach directly adjacent to Kennedy Space Center, my feet wet in the glass-flat surf, watching 148 sea turtle hatchlings, each one about the size of a walnut, and all of them translocated from their original nests on the Gulf side of Florida - as they clambered across the sand and made their way into the late summer water of the Atlantic.

    Rick Cleveland: The Sound and the Fury of Tiny Flippers 2010

  • A perspectival velo of intersections, by which each miniature window of visual information may be translocated to a reticulated sheet of paper, thereby reconstructing the desired vista.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Two weeks ago, under a practically full moon, I stood on a beach directly adjacent to Kennedy Space Center, my feet wet in the glass-flat surf, watching 148 sea turtle hatchlings, each one about the size of a walnut, and all of them translocated from their original nests on the Gulf side of Florida - as they clambered across the sand and made their way into the late summer water of the Atlantic.

    Rick Cleveland: The Sound and the Fury of Tiny Flippers 2010

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