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
The concluding fire-and-brimstone fireworks of “Vingt Regards” transmogrify that turmoil of liberation into a transcendental visitation of bliss in the mystic beyond.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
What if we allow flowers to transmogrify into a sculptural medium like clay or marble or steel, unique in their ephemerality but ultimately just another organic formation?
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
Jonathan was for an instant paralysed by our impudence; but just as we were getting before the wind, he yawed, and let drive his whole broadside; and fearfully did it transmogrify us.
From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott
Like other climate denial claims, the urban planning concept transmogrified in the depths of the internet.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 19, 2023
Coupled with marketable if less visible engineering advances, the campaign transmogrified the cookie-cutter low-cost automobile that Hitler commissioned as “the people’s car” in the 1930s into the American counterculture’s adorable “Love Bug.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
“You experience someone who has put her past in a box and who through her immense talent has tried to reinvent herself and be saved and changed and transmogrified by the music.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
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
The civilization he meant to build has transmogrified to a forest thick with traps.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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
Not because they’re heating up, but because they are transmogrifying into their gaseous state.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
This time the player is Detective Sebastian Castellanos a troubled detective who must search for his lost daughter in a weird, transmogrifying town.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2017
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
Mrs. K. is an excellent hand at transmogrifying things, and in a large family such articles never come amiss.”
From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Susanna Moodie
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