transpose
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“It was my own personal triumph over dyslexia. When I was drawing up the plans, I kept worrying that I would transpose numbers and screw it all up, but it came out great,” he explained.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Given that many of the aggregate level assumptions have changed, it is somewhat pointless to try to transpose this onto individual bank loss estimates, analysts write.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Nicole Eun-Ju Bell’s video and projection designs subtly transpose the setting when, for instance, Umma meets up with her son at church.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
Kingsolver explained that it was "challenging and also fun to transpose Victorian characters and situations to my own place and time" for her 10th novel.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2023
But some care must be taken to correctly transpose accidentals.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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These are the techniques that Mr. Lerner transposes to his novels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Choreographer Matthew Bourne transposes Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” to an asylum for young people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
The previously published “White Sands National Monument, New Mexico,” 1964, transposes Winogrand’s fascination with alienated and isolated Americans into a beautiful blue-and-white image.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
Woolly Mammoth Theatre, too, has embarked on a restart with “Teenage Dick,” a reasonably diverting comedy that transposes “Richard III” to an American high school.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2021
It displaces enjoyments, it transposes wages--that is all.
From Essays on Political Economy by Frédéric Bastiat
The ruthless machinations of Gilded Age robber barons are transposed to New York’s hotels and banquet rooms—a story of love marketed to the highest bidder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Once calm, she played a showpiece for him, then transposed the key instantly when he requested.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
How did that message get transposed onto the middle class?
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
So I went in and I looked at the house and I walked around and looked at the patterns and colors Sarah put in there, and got those transposed from the wall to the dress.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
However, if you only have the music on paper, it may be easier to transpose it yourself than to enter it into a music program to have it transposed.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Takuya Otsuki, exhibiting at COHJU, draws on traditional Japanese art in his images, which pare down historical works into isolated, sometimes abstract elements, transposing them in mineral and dyed-mud pigments on hemp paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
The transposing of a public role on a nonprofit world over the last year, Lanchance said, is an opportunity to keep the knowledge democratized.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026
But transposing this practice into the realm of climate would require investment, training, and infrastructure.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 6, 2023
Sohn and screenwriters John Hoberg, Kat Likkel and Brenda Hsueh are working well-known, much-beloved stories and tropes, transposing these tales into this fantastical world of humanoid elements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
If you are changing keys to play with another instrumentalist who is transposing or who is playing in a different key from you, you will need to figure out the correct transposition.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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