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

The concluding fire-and-brimstone fireworks of “Vingt Regards” transmogrify that turmoil of liberation into a transcendental visitation of bliss in the mystic beyond.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2020

Well, maybe a digitally remixed Dutch master fruit painting would become a coat, narrow on top, ripely skirted below, practically bursting from its skin, and manga faces would transmogrify into layers of flowing robes.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2017

If your boat and my knowledge doesn't transmogrify us from a pair of stone-brokes into a couple of bloated millionaires, I'm a Dutchman.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright