transmogrify
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He would soon transmogrify these mostly dismal experiences into art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 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
Which leaves open the question of whether New York state prosecutors can transmogrify this conduct into a state crime.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023
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 Van Tassel Sutphen
Consequently, construction delays mounted, all transmogrified into change orders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Like other climate denial claims, the urban planning concept transmogrified in the depths of the internet.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 19, 2023
Maybe before you saw the package in Trader Joe's you assumed it might mean cheese on top of bread, or bread stuffed with cheese, or maybe bread that has been somehow transmogrified into cheese.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2022
Also, you can bet your booty Bond has never, and will never, ever, be transmogrified into a — wait for it — pigeon.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2019
Fragments of food are transmogrified into cellular machinery.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
With his endpaper paintings, Bradford demonstrated a talent for transmogrifying everyday objects by layering, sanding, gouging, scraping and tearing until they obliquely reflected his peculiar perspective on the world.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
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
Walter and Ralph were not long in transmogrifying their appearance, and had soon the air of two respectable serving-men in a Flemish household.
From St. George for England by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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