transmute

The rosary presupposes our boredom, propensity to distraction, and impatience with dull routine and attempts to transmute these failings into the virtues of faith, hope and charity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Astrologers consult a national zodiac, palm readers ring pagodas, would-be alchemists attempt to transmute mercury into gold and SIM card companies advertise dial-a-diviners.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

"What causes something to be insulating, conducting or magnetic? Can we transmute something into a different state?"

From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025

According to Israel's Basic Law, the president "has the power to pardon criminals and reduce or transmute their sentence".

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

When I could no longer concentrate on Greek and the alphabet began to transmute itself into incoherent triangles and pitchforks, I read The Great Gatsby.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

There, she transmutes noblewoman Marie d’Odette into a swan and assumes her identity.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025

The third act, set decades later and entirely sung through, with music from the composer Michael Friedman, transmutes them further.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

According to Slant magazine, the writer-director’s flair for “go-for-broke zaniness transmutes what might otherwise have been a lump of self-indulgent cliches into gold.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2022

Like a sleazy alchemist, Hill transmutes shoestring budgets into cinematic gold, melting down and reshaping scrap metal into distinctive, often beautiful art.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2020

Then stay! your use her worth discloses, Your ghastly frames her worth transmutes, From withered sticks, to stems of roses— From creaking reeds, to magic flutes.

From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Colles, Julia Keese

“Another Dimension” is his answer to the years of rejection, pain and incandescent ire, but transmuted into a vibrant, avant-garde, genre-defying gaping wound found within 11 tight tracks.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

As a Black woman who grew up in the segregated South, she transmuted the prejudice her community faced into striking scenes of human connection, many of them sketched from memory and some rendered as linocuts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026

In Heaney’s poetry the personal is always transmuted by a larger vision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

She departed it as a bejeweled crown on a purple cushion, transmuted finally into pure visual symbol.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

The process is almost absurdly laborious—like sculpting a face out of a million silhouettes—but it works: piece by piece, a set of two-dimensional images can be transmuted into a three-dimensional form.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The idea of transmuting black rock into useful products was born out of similar energy-security anxieties a century ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

In the process of transmuting the mid-rib of the leaf, the plant undergoes a proliferation of new vascular tissue — and avoids rotting while the rest of the leaf withers away.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2024

What Soddy and Rutherford realized was that nature itself is an alchemist, "transmuting" materials into other types of materials through the spontaneous process of radioactive decay.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023

The collection showcased an intricate blend of masculine and feminine, transmuting the high-end tailoring traditions of British menswear with haute couture fabrications, harking back to Dior’s womenswear roots.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

For the alchemists, including Boyle and Newton, the fundamental enterprise was one of transmuting one substance into another.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton