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metamorphosis

noun as in conversion, transformation

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While in school he attended Episcopal chapel; he completed his metamorphosis by marrying the scion of a prominent Milwaukee family that was established in colonial Virginia in the 17th century.

Monday, the entire room will undergo a dramatic metamorphosis.

But the 2016 election was the fruit of a cultural metamorphosis that had been in progress since the Clinton presidency, accelerating during George W. Bush’s time in office.

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“Adventure, risk, transformation,” she exults, forever on the lookout for her next metamorphosis.

Less discussed has been Milioti’s metamorphosis into the internally and externally scarred Sofia, hard as Gotham’s most brutal gangsters and free of the ties of conscience that could bind vengeful hands.

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