metamorphosis
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The magic of metamorphosis in butterflies underscores our capacity for change, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
That's not what we would expect to see in amphibians, whose metamorphosis from tadpoles into adults includes much more dramatic rearranging and development of organs and limbs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
“We use it as a symbol to show her metamorphosis as a character,” Condal says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Sean Combs is one of these moments that should be understood as a marker in this metamorphosis.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025
Seen this way, my bodily metamorphosis was a small event.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
"Just like butterflies, corals also undergo different metamorphoses and stages."
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
These metamorphoses are far more compelling and convincing than the psychological evolution of the story’s central character.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023
For these eight women I spoke to over the course of the last five months, pregnancy and childbirth prompted astounding metamorphoses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
With the Los Angeles artists they discussed other frontiers — migrations, mystical metamorphoses, the limits of the human condition.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
Olakunde shall be the Ovid of far Oyo, writing the tales of Africk metamorphoses; and Pomp recording his ghost stories for a winter night.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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