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He would soon transmogrify these mostly dismal experiences into art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Seeing Powell transmogrify from nerdy Gary to five o’clock shadow Ron and back again is both hilarious and tantalizing, while Arjona has a big-eyed innocence crossed with wily smarts that keeps everyone, including Gary, guessing.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2024

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 play is treated as though it might at any moment transmogrify into a musical.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2019

If your boat and my knowledge doesn't transmogrify us from a pair of stone-brokes into a couple of bloated millionaires, I'm a Dutchman.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

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

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

Hideously transmogrified, they struggle upstream past the banks of Pacific Northwest lakes, rivers and streams in an intricate and terrifying water ballet.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

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

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

The hopes of transmogrifying itself into a second-home haven have fallen flat, and shiny, largely vacant waterfront condos loom over the charitable bay with walls that gather salt for the wounds.

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2014

Verbosity.—This is the power of writing two columns in answer to a three-line paragraph—of twisting, turning, transmogrifying, dissecting, kicking, cuffing, illustrating, turning inside out, and outside in again the aforesaid paragraph.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 32, November 5, 1870 by Various