chrysalis
Example Sentences
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Trefry likened this awkward time of life to the stage in a butterfly’s development when a caterpillar disappears inside a chrysalis and dissolves into goo before reforming into something entirely new.
From Salon
Nearly every one of those caterpillars at some point drops from the tree canopy to overwinter or create a chrysalis.
But Nirupama Rao, former Indian ambassador to Beijing and Washington, says India is "a titan in chrysalis" - too large and ambitious to bind itself to any single great power.
From BBC
Between “Snooze” and “Crybaby,” she was lifted on wires, revealing a gauze train in the shape of a chrysalis, to spellbinding effect.
From Los Angeles Times
This sort of dark chrysalis that created the Donald Trump that we know today.
From Los Angeles Times
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