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transmogrify

[trans-mog-ruh-fahy, tranz-] / trænsˈmɒg rəˌfaɪ, trænz- /


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He would soon transmogrify these mostly dismal experiences into art.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 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

Iota by iota, debris was thought to transmogrify into flies.

From New York Times May 28, 2021

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

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 Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

Consequently, construction delays mounted, all transmogrified into change orders.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Like other climate denial claims, the urban planning concept transmogrified in the depths of the internet.

From Scientific American Jul. 19, 2023

Hideously transmogrified, they struggle upstream past the banks of Pacific Northwest lakes, rivers and streams in an intricate and terrifying water ballet.

From Seattle Times Oct. 27, 2022

Maybe before you saw the package in Trader Joe's you assumed it might mean cheese on top of bread, or bread stuffed with cheese, or maybe bread that has been somehow transmogrified into cheese.

From Salon Feb. 7, 2022

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

This time the player is Detective Sebastian Castellanos a troubled detective who must search for his lost daughter in a weird, transmogrifying town.

From The Guardian Jun. 15, 2017

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

Walter and Ralph were not long in transmogrifying their appearance, and had soon the air of two respectable serving-men in a Flemish household.

From St. George for England by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty




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