transmute

Carpenter plucks Cricket from arts college and its meaningless pontificating to his “atelier in the corn,” a ramshackle Victorian where Cricket learns how to transmute what he sees with color and light.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

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

Lunenfeld writes that an “alchemical map of a Los Angeles reimagined transmutes the elements, diagraming a connectionist platzgeist.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 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

Knapp probably had, to start with, a touch of that original genius which transmutes the most ordinary conditions of life into means of personal aggrandizement.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science by Various

“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

It is only when Agnes attends an early performance of “Hamlet” that she realizes that he has transmuted his grief into drama.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

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

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

She saps the event's power to define her, transmuting pain into affecting prose.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2021

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