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

It was his odd blindness, I think, to all problems of a personal nature which made him able at the end to transmute even Bunny’s highly substantive troubles into spiritual ones.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Part of their education, he insists, must be to learn disappointment—an experience this heartfelt novel transmutes into kindness and wisdom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

But whenever I interact with my Asian women friends, that anger transmutes into laughter at the people who are so stupid they cannot distinguish between us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

In “King Richard,” Smith transmutes that gift into something subtler but just as powerful in his portrayal of Richard Williams, father of Venus and Serena.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

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

Meager and bare the furnishings, But hospitality that kings Might well dispense, transmutes to gold, The welcome given young and old.

From Songs Ysame by Albion Fellows Bacon

“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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

They’re not the products of someone who has digested and transmuted her experience of those older artists into an original idiom, one that generates its own internal heat rather than depending on a borrowed glow.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023

Even our inherited classical mythology can be transmuted.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

Thus in 1660 Boyle describes one experiment ‘as a plausible, though not demonstrative proof, that Water may be transmuted into Air’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

“In this first half, it’s very much about exploring all the different sort of versions and avenues of yourself as you’re growing and changing and transmuting into something else,” she says.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

The musical, even at this somewhat wobbly preliminary stage, holds onto the gold of Hinton’s novel, transmuting it imperfectly yet courageously into hypnotic theater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 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