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metamorphose

[met-uh-mawr-fohz, -fohs] / ˌmɛt əˈmɔr foʊz, -foʊs /


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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

They pulsate, drip, twist, ooze, squirm and sometimes even metamorphose, and when they were displayed alongside the menacing work of the “Alien” artist H.R.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 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

Lyn Slater will be the first to tell you her life has been a series of happy accidents and purposeful metamorphoses.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

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

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

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022

Only Calliope, in the second row, is motionless, her desk stalled somehow, so that she’s the only one who takes in the true extent of the metamorphoses around her.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

By 2024, the Times would later admit, his enemies had metamorphosed him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Had Butland metamorphosed into Usain Bolt in that moment he still wouldn't have made it.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025

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

"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

Milagro metamorphosed into one great gloppy bog, overrun with muskrats and water snakes.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Dhoot's ambition of metamorphosing into an oil and gas giant didn't materialise either.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 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

This confusion is reflected and amplified in “A Pink Chair,” suggesting animate beings metamorphosing into statues, with the quicksilver humanity of theater freezing into a gallery of relics.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2018

We can never let up; we scramble our way through one civilization after another, metamorphosing, sprouting tools and cities everywhere, and all the time new words keep tumbling out.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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