metamorphose

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

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

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

These metamorphoses are far more compelling and convincing than the psychological evolution of the story’s central character.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023

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

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

What was once a cottage industry of such training has metamorphosed, with nearly every multifamily office, bank and peer-membership group offering its own version.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

The musicians metamorphosed into their final form: Adopting the name Black Sabbath, after a low-budget Boris Karloff film of the same name, they started writing lyrics that dabbled in death, black magic and mental illness.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 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

The surface of Venus, meanwhile, is hot enough to melt lead—hot enough that McSween thinks most of its surface rock should have metamorphosed.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 12, 2023

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

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

The trick to controlling sea lampreys is preventing them from metamorphosing and moving beyond the streams, Gaden said.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 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