transmogrify
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Evolution has similarly purloined existing features and modified them, using great thrift, for example, to transmogrify a piece of jaw into an ear or to transform a leg into a wing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 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
P. S.—Be sure and see that the printer spells my name rightly, and don't transmogrify it into "TREEBOX," as a beast of a Treasury Clerk did the other day.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 by Various
Consequently, construction delays mounted, all transmogrified into change orders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
The air around me was sour and stale, transmogrified by a mass of sweating bodies.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2024
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
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
One of its greatest delights is King’s extended cameo as an unlucky hillbilly transmogrifying into a mossy mutant, an appropriate metaphor for his fecund imagination.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2019
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
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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