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

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

The materials furnished by sensibility are taken up by the understanding, which classifies, interprets, judges, compares, reduces to unity, eliminates, converts, and thus fashions sensations into conceptions, transmutes impressions into thoughts.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

“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

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

With his alchemy of ingenuity and patience, he transmuted the junk into valued presents for every tenant who lived at Number Four Willow Street.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

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

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

The collection showcased an intricate blend of masculine and feminine, transmuting the high-end tailoring traditions of British menswear with haute couture fabrications, harking back to Dior’s womenswear roots.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

Maybe the consolation comes from transmuting complex emotions and weighty observations into objects that are boldly and beautifully precise.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2021

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