transpose
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“It was my own personal triumph over dyslexia. When I was drawing up the plans, I kept worrying that I would transpose numbers and screw it all up, but it came out great,” he explained.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
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 best practice for transposing is to transpose a piece you know well into a new key.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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These are the techniques that Mr. Lerner transposes to his novels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
The defining feature of “Andor” is how it takes a “Star Wars” story and, without getting conceptual, transposes it in visual and tonal terms.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
Woolly Mammoth Theatre, too, has embarked on a restart with “Teenage Dick,” a reasonably diverting comedy that transposes “Richard III” to an American high school.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2021
Understated in its complex ruminations, Ford’s succinct debut transposes the discourse around the #MeToo movement from whiteness to a Black female lens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2021
In order to bring me "within his danger," he actually transposes two lines of Shakspeare; and so, to the unwary, makes me appear to be a very shallow person indeed.
From Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
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
Once calm, she played a showpiece for him, then transposed the key instantly when he requested.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
How did that message get transposed onto the middle class?
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
"The regulation sets ambitious targets and timelines, and implementation steps are clearly laid out. It also saves time as it does not need to be transposed into national law."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2023
Figure 6.21: In the top line, the melody is written out in concert pitch; on the second line it has been transposed to be read by an alto saxophone.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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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
Some instruments that are identified this way are transposing instruments, but others are not.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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