parlayed

Being a talented chef can then be parlayed into broader success, especially when combined with skills in areas like communication if hosting a TV show or writing a cookbook.

Instead, his attempt at writing dramas has been parlayed into a career that utilizes something Jones has more familiarity with: self-deprecating humor.

Sandy Koufax parlayed five magic summers into a plaque at Cooperstown.

Her sister Jean, who died last year, parlayed her language and puzzle-solving skills into assignments in Egypt and Italy as a cipher officer working with the Special Operations Executive, nicknamed Churchill’s Secret Army.

He parlayed that research into a doctorate at Oxford University and went on to become a curator and later director at that university’s Pitt Rivers Museum.