transmogrify
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Evolution has similarly purloined existing features and modified them, using great thrift, for example, to transmogrify a piece of jaw into an ear or to transform a leg into a wing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Seeing Powell transmogrify from nerdy Gary to five o’clock shadow Ron and back again is both hilarious and tantalizing, while Arjona has a big-eyed innocence crossed with wily smarts that keeps everyone, including Gary, guessing.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2024
It’s likely in the middle of that process now, and could transmogrify itself into a star in as little as 200,000 years.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 24, 2023
Which leaves open the question of whether New York state prosecutors can transmogrify this conduct into a state crime.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023
P. S.—Be sure and see that the printer spells my name rightly, and don't transmogrify it into "TREEBOX," as a beast of a Treasury Clerk did the other day.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 by Various
Consequently, construction delays mounted, all transmogrified into change orders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Like other climate denial claims, the urban planning concept transmogrified in the depths of the internet.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 19, 2023
Maybe before you saw the package in Trader Joe's you assumed it might mean cheese on top of bread, or bread stuffed with cheese, or maybe bread that has been somehow transmogrified into cheese.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2022
Also, you can bet your booty Bond has never, and will never, ever, be transmogrified into a — wait for it — pigeon.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2019
The civilization he meant to build has transmogrified to a forest thick with traps.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
The main specialties of gender-affirming care — endocrinology and plastic surgery — were founded in the early 1900s, not as a means of transmogrifying gender but rather as tools for reifying it.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2022
Adrien Merigeau’s fluidly surreal French dazzler “Genius Loci,” meanwhile, finds a solitary young woman’s restlessness about night in the city answered by the ceaseless transmogrifying of her surroundings, even herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2021
Guitar Hero reanimated the music video game genre when it launched in 2005, magically transmogrifying players into bona fide fret-shredding, tremolo-slapping Rock Gods.
From Time ● Aug. 23, 2016
“Thank you for speaking, and speaking from your heart,” Cruz said warmly before transmogrifying into his more lawyerly self.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2016
Julia had changed little; for in her case, neither marriage nor maternity had laid its transmogrifying, touch upon her.
From Angel Island by Inez Haynes Gillmore
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