transpose
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Nicole Eun-Ju Bell’s video and projection designs subtly transpose the setting when, for instance, Umma meets up with her son at church.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
In Tyson Louie’s league, the loser has to pose for a portrait that members then transpose into a scene.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
Kingsolver explained that it was "challenging and also fun to transpose Victorian characters and situations to my own place and time" for her 10th novel.
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2023
The commission said it had asked for financial sanctions against the countries as they had failed to transpose the new directive, which sets EU-wide media content standards for all audiovisual media, by September 2020.
From Reuters • May 19, 2022
If you have a C part and want it to become a B flat part, for example, you must transpose up one whole step.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Vocabulary lists containing transpose
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