transmogrify
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Evolution has similarly purloined existing features and modified them, using great thrift, for example, to transmogrify a piece of jaw into an ear or to transform a leg into a wing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
It’s likely in the middle of that process now, and could transmogrify itself into a star in as little as 200,000 years.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 24, 2023
Iota by iota, debris was thought to transmogrify into flies.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2021
The play is treated as though it might at any moment transmogrify into a musical.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2019
I knew it was necessary to surprise him, and so I borrowed the photograph and used it to transmogrify the queen of spades card.
From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel
The air around me was sour and stale, transmogrified by a mass of sweating bodies.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2024
Like other climate denial claims, the urban planning concept transmogrified in the depths of the internet.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 19, 2023
“You experience someone who has put her past in a box and who through her immense talent has tried to reinvent herself and be saved and changed and transmogrified by the music.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
But it could "rapidly be transmogrified into an ideological orthodoxy".
From BBC ● May 12, 2020
The civilization he meant to build has transmogrified to a forest thick with traps.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
According to cast member Kyle Sullivan, “There was this weird dynamic where they were taking something that exists in an adult context, like ‘Fear Factor,’ and transmogrifying it for kids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
The main specialties of gender-affirming care — endocrinology and plastic surgery — were founded in the early 1900s, not as a means of transmogrifying gender but rather as tools for reifying it.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2022
Guitar Hero reanimated the music video game genre when it launched in 2005, magically transmogrifying players into bona fide fret-shredding, tremolo-slapping Rock Gods.
From Time ● Aug. 23, 2016
“Thank you for speaking, and speaking from your heart,” Cruz said warmly before transmogrifying into his more lawyerly self.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2016
Verbosity.—This is the power of writing two columns in answer to a three-line paragraph—of twisting, turning, transmogrifying, dissecting, kicking, cuffing, illustrating, turning inside out, and outside in again the aforesaid paragraph.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 32, November 5, 1870 by Various
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