transmogrify

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

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

The play is treated as though it might at any moment transmogrify into a musical.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2019

Well, maybe a digitally remixed Dutch master fruit painting would become a coat, narrow on top, ripely skirted below, practically bursting from its skin, and manga faces would transmogrify into layers of flowing robes.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2017

If your boat and my knowledge doesn't transmogrify us from a pair of stone-brokes into a couple of bloated millionaires, I'm a Dutchman.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

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

Coupled with marketable if less visible engineering advances, the campaign transmogrified the cookie-cutter low-cost automobile that Hitler commissioned as “the people’s car” in the 1930s into the American counterculture’s adorable “Love Bug.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

“You experience someone who has put her past in a box and who through her immense talent has tried to reinvent herself and be saved and changed and transmogrified by the music.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2022

Fragments of food are transmogrified into cellular machinery.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

According to cast member Kyle Sullivan, “There was this weird dynamic where they were taking something that exists in an adult context, like ‘Fear Factor,’ and transmogrifying it for kids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

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

This time the player is Detective Sebastian Castellanos a troubled detective who must search for his lost daughter in a weird, transmogrifying town.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2017

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

Mrs. K. is an excellent hand at transmogrifying things, and in a large family such articles never come amiss.”

From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Susanna Moodie