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
These metamorphoses are far more compelling and convincing than the psychological evolution of the story’s central character.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023
For these eight women I spoke to over the course of the last five months, pregnancy and childbirth prompted astounding metamorphoses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
As Ernestine shuffles closer to a century of birthdays, the metamorphoses lean into emotional manipulation.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2022
My vision is so accustomed to a shifting horizon, to the metamorphoses of ocean and clouds, that to see such a mass of rock, immovable against the sky, was astonishing.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Witkoff is part of a small cadre of Trump administration offspring who, since their fathers moved to Washington, have metamorphosed into wealthy financial celebrities in their own right.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
Had Butland metamorphosed into Usain Bolt in that moment he still wouldn't have made it.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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
The imp instantly metamorphosed into a plump fairy with coppery wings.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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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
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
After the Civil War, they expanded to other commodities before concentrating on financial services and later metamorphosing into the nation’s fourth-largest investment bank.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 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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