transmute

The spider’s ability to transmute our human apprehensions still holds true.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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

Finally, she transmutes into a virus — a female bug in a hardwired social system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 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

Dull, generic and padded, the series, one of the premiere offerings for NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service on Wednesday, transmutes a provocative warning into a vision of a sci-fi world that feels neither brave nor new.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2020

In a way it transmutes our very real and ongoing anxiety and sense of helplessness into something we can put eyes on, a vicarious and safely distant fantasy of disorder and detonation.

From Salon ● May 4, 2020

Who first dipped his silver pen into his golden ink, and who first conceived the notion of this literary alchemy, which transmutes paper into gold or lead?

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

“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

They provided precise ionization data, spelled out their theory on how positrons emitted by the bombarded atoms transmuted into gamma rays, and carefully avoided any speculation about the significance of the new phenomenon.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

The event will feature a Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice for transmuting suffering, she says, during which participants visualize the suffering, breathing it in, then breathe out compassion and healing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

“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

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

“Aye; the singular alchemy of transmuting that which mightn’t be, into that which is. ‘

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman