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transformative

[trans-fawr-muh-tiv] / trænsˈfɔr mə tɪv /
ADJECTIVE
power to change dramatically
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America has always led the world in developing transformative technologies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

“So when you have a show that somebody watched over a 10-year period, it really was there with them over a transformative period of their lives.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

There would be "nothing transformative", she said, and certainly no major shift on Palestinian statehood or the peace process, issues that have largely disappeared from Israeli political debate since October 7.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

When the railroad first came to North America, it was a tremendously transformative technology.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

The Scientific Revolution was a single transformative process, the cumulative consequence, not of one sort of change repeated many times, but of several distinct types of change overlapping and interlocking with each other.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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