transmute
Example Sentences
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In Heaney’s poetry the personal is always transmuted by a larger vision.
"What causes something to be insulating, conducting or magnetic? Can we transmute something into a different state?"
From Science Daily
According to Israel's Basic Law, the president "has the power to pardon criminals and reduce or transmute their sentence".
From BBC
Her feelings of kinship with precipitation are transmuted into a delightfully conceived scene in which little versions of Amélie appear inside every falling raindrop.
From Los Angeles Times
This event has been transmuted into “The Gold,” an involving British drama premiering here Sunday on PBS.
From Los Angeles Times
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