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

But how did a hereditary particle transmute into an eye pigment?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

According to Slant magazine, the writer-director’s flair for “go-for-broke zaniness transmutes what might otherwise have been a lump of self-indulgent cliches into gold.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2022

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

Divine love, love that could die, love that did die, that its beloved ones might not die, is the solvent which transmutes all the shame and pain of sin to heavenly glory and bliss.

From Misread Passage of Scriptures by James Baldwin Brown

“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

This event has been transmuted into “The Gold,” an involving British drama premiering here Sunday on PBS.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 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

The lights inside the limo transmuted from orange, to red, and back to purple.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

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 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 physicists 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

It’s not really a story, per se, which threw me when I first started thinking of transmuting it over to the modern era.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

But the Dreamers have improved themselves, and the damming of seas for voltage, the extraction of coal, the transmuting of oil into food, have enabled an expansion in plunder with no known precedent.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates