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transpose

[trans-pohz, trans-pohz] / trænsˈpoʊz, ˈtræns poʊz /


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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

We seem to share a mutually stubborn allergy to what I must transpose into horsepucky.

From Washington Post Jan. 8, 2022

Figure 6.16: Flats don't necessarily transpose as flats, or sharps as sharps.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

These are the techniques that Mr. Lerner transposes to his novels.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

She starts on plain lined sheets, then she transposes the keepers to “scalloped paper plates.”

From New York Times Nov. 15, 2024

The miracle of the painting is in the way Sargent transposes “there and then” into “here and now.”

From Washington Post Oct. 27, 2022

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Open Fist Theatre Company transposes the action from ancient Greece to the pre-Civil War South in a provocative reimagining of Shakespeare’s sylvan fantasy.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2022

But the Phocaean transposes the title “Ionians,” rushing at once to the subject of alarm, as though in the terror of the moment he had forgotten the usual address to his audience.

From On the Sublime by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)

As Singh tries to prevent that from happening, his efforts are transposed with Gaitonde’s story, an epic tale that examines the nature of power amid the city’s religious and economic tensions.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Nor can encounters between Neanderthals and Sapiens be reduced to past loves or wars merely transposed from our modern imagination.

From Science Daily Jul. 7, 2026

At the stand of Avinox, a manufacturer of motors for electric bicycles, the DNA of parent company and Chinese drone specialist DJI has been transposed to cycling.

From Barron's Jun. 28, 2026

The ruthless machinations of Gilded Age robber barons are transposed to New York’s hotels and banquet rooms—a story of love marketed to the highest bidder.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

Then suddenly from one second to the next they were all transposed on Nelson, who came running into the house afraid for his life.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Takuya Otsuki, exhibiting at COHJU, draws on traditional Japanese art in his images, which pare down historical works into isolated, sometimes abstract elements, transposing them in mineral and dyed-mud pigments on hemp paper.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

The transposing of a public role on a nonprofit world over the last year, Lanchance said, is an opportunity to keep the knowledge democratized.

From Salon Jan. 30, 2026

But there’s a risk in transposing the past to the present.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 9, 2024

But transposing this practice into the realm of climate would require investment, training, and infrastructure.

From Scientific American Sep. 6, 2023

Instruments with ranges that do not fall comfortably into either bass or treble clef may use a C clef or may be transposing instruments.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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