metamorphose
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Lightbox portraits metamorphose into 18th-century figures with stories to tell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
As in, they'll be so desperate to keep the series alive in Melbourne on Saturday they'll metamorphose into a team of belligerence and belief - a band of brothers who will blow the Lions away.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2025
Previous studies had found that smooth muscle cells metamorphose into different types of cells inside these atherosclerotic plaques and multiply to make up most cells within the plaques.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024
The axolotl is one of four central Mexico species that rarely, if ever, metamorphose in the wild.
From Science Magazine ● May 8, 2023
She will metamorphose into a wife or consort and raise faerie children who will adore and outlive her.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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"Just like butterflies, corals also undergo different metamorphoses and stages."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
Notably, music emerges as the most honest vehicle for them to bond over, and as the cinematic element that most closely parallels Freddie’s metamorphoses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
Ms. Cheney’s journey is one of the most remarkable metamorphoses of the Trump era.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
Physical metamorphoses, of course, have long been part of the actor’s life and feature heavily in award-season narratives — though they’re often hailed as a form of art, not as a how-to manual.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
Only Calliope, in the second row, is motionless, her desk stalled somehow, so that she’s the only one who takes in the true extent of the metamorphoses around her.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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What was once a cottage industry of such training has metamorphosed, with nearly every multifamily office, bank and peer-membership group offering its own version.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
The musicians metamorphosed into their final form: Adopting the name Black Sabbath, after a low-budget Boris Karloff film of the same name, they started writing lyrics that dabbled in death, black magic and mental illness.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
"These metamorphosed sedimentary rocks that have melted and produced granites that concentrate uranium and thorium are like black box flight recorders that record pressure and temperature," Smye said.
From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024
The surface of Venus, meanwhile, is hot enough to melt lead—hot enough that McSween thinks most of its surface rock should have metamorphosed.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 12, 2023
In his daydreams, pebbles metamorphosed into sparkling rubies; chickens became peacocks; Stephanie Milligans dissolved into Greta Garbos.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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Ten years apart, the changes to his free-kick technique demonstrated how Bale could transform his game over the course of a stellar career; a player of rare - and metamorphosing - quality.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2022
The trick to controlling sea lampreys is preventing them from metamorphosing and moving beyond the streams, Gaden said.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2022
Meanwhile, he feels himself metamorphosing: “Like that morning, everything inside him seemed damp and mortified, shrunken, slowly rotting.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2020
Peterson’s production — duskily lighted by Peter Maradudin on a quickly metamorphosing set by Myung Hee Cho and featuring a coordinated ensemble that grasps the feeling underlying the drama — has a discreet efficiency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2019
Neither man nor woman, neither and both, cyclic, lunar, metamorphosing under the hand’s touch, changelings in the human cradle, they were no flesh of mine, no friends; no love between us.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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