metamorphose

Near the summit they metamorphose into stone tree branches, interweaving like a forest canopy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

"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

With the Los Angeles artists they discussed other frontiers — migrations, mystical metamorphoses, the limits of the human condition.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022

There are some metamorphoses you simply do not sign up to look in on.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022

Olakunde shall be the Ovid of far Oyo, writing the tales of Africk metamorphoses; and Pomp recording his ghost stories for a winter night.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

And this man once seen as a performative figure — a political sideshow — has metamorphosed into a towering and singular figure in America whose significance goes far beyond politics.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

Each fully grown male, which weighed less than 2g and measured under 3cm, continued to carry the little tadpoles until they metamorphosed into froglets.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 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

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

"In the last 30 years my ideas around loss have been in a continuous state of metamorphosing," she writes.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2024

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

That pitch had traveled its own Kafkaesque journey, metamorphosing as it went.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 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