How to Use translocation in a Sentence

translocation

noun
  • Time will ultimately tell the tale of the translocation tape.
    — Dallas News, 20 June 2020
  • With these translocations, the gene pool of the animals is expanding.
    — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2019
  • 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
  • Calhoun’s translocation experiment convinced him that there was still a lot to learn about the social lives of rats.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • This newer translocation was no more welcome than landing in Italy three years earlier.
    — Andre Aciman, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • This gut leakiness can lead to bacterial translocation inside the body.
    — Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 2 Nov. 2020
  • 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 release was planned to occur several times already, but was pushed back in order to ensure that there were enough chicks for the translocation (read more about that here).
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Precautions were taken to minimize stress and ensure their well-being throughout the translocation process.
    — Washington Post, 25 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • For more information and to subscribe for elk translocation updates, visit the DNR’s elk webpage.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2022
  • On the surface, such translocations constitute a valuable effort to protect animals facing habitat loss or other dangers.
    — Jacob Brogan, Smithsonian, 1 June 2017
  • 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
  • About 50% of people with multiple myeloma have a chromosome translocation, where parts of different chromosomes switch places.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Free-living non-native pigs east of the Wallace Line exhibit complex genomes that suggest waves of prehistoric human translocations.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Free-living non-native pigs east of the Wallace Line exhibit complex genomes that suggest waves of prehistoric human translocations.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Efforts to keep lions in Gujarat The Gujarat government has come up with an alternative to the Kuno translocation.
    — Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • The monumental move marks one of Kenya’s most significant translocations to date, and the first time Loisaba has seen rhinos since poachers killed off the last of the species there 50 years ago.
    — Alexandra Kirkman, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Acharya said the rise in population was the result of a number of changes, including investment in habitat management, controlling poaching and translocation of rhinos between habitats.
    — Sophie Jeong, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
  • In the case of kōura, additional translocation could be helpful in increasing genetic diversity; the researchers are currently working to develop the best strategies for this.
    — Rina Diane Caballar, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • So states looking to maximize the amount of funds available for GPS collars, or translocation projects, or to do landscape-scale habitat work, are better off with the arrangement that raises the most revenue.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2024

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