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transpose

[trans-pohz, trans-pohz] / trænsˈpoʊz, ˈtræns poʊz /


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“It was my own personal triumph over dyslexia. When I was drawing up the plans, I kept worrying that I would transpose numbers and screw it all up, but it came out great,” he explained.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

Nicole Eun-Ju Bell’s video and projection designs subtly transpose the setting when, for instance, Umma meets up with her son at church.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

In Tyson Louie’s league, the loser has to pose for a portrait that members then transpose into a scene.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025

Kingsolver explained that it was "challenging and also fun to transpose Victorian characters and situations to my own place and time" for her 10th novel.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2023

But some care must be taken to correctly transpose accidentals.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

These are the techniques that Mr. Lerner transposes to his novels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

The Pulitzer board described “Fat Ham” as “a funny, poignant play that deftly transposes ‘Hamlet’ to a family barbecue in the American South to grapple with questions of identity, kinship, responsibility and honesty.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2022

The miracle of the painting is in the way Sargent transposes “there and then” into “here and now.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022

Understated in its complex ruminations, Ford’s succinct debut transposes the discourse around the #MeToo movement from whiteness to a Black female lens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2021

The home key at any station, when depressed, transposes the sides of the line with respect to the talking apparatus.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Samuel McMeen

The ruthless machinations of Gilded Age robber barons are transposed to New York’s hotels and banquet rooms—a story of love marketed to the highest bidder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Once calm, she played a showpiece for him, then transposed the key instantly when he requested.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

How did that message get transposed onto the middle class?

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025

So I went in and I looked at the house and I walked around and looked at the patterns and colors Sarah put in there, and got those transposed from the wall to the dress.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

In the same way, all minor keys are so alike that music can easily be transposed from one minor key to another.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Takuya Otsuki, exhibiting at COHJU, draws on traditional Japanese art in his images, which pare down historical works into isolated, sometimes abstract elements, transposing them in mineral and dyed-mud pigments on hemp paper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

The transposing of a public role on a nonprofit world over the last year, Lanchance said, is an opportunity to keep the knowledge democratized.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026

But transposing this practice into the realm of climate would require investment, training, and infrastructure.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 6, 2023

Sohn and screenwriters John Hoberg, Kat Likkel and Brenda Hsueh are working well-known, much-beloved stories and tropes, transposing these tales into this fantastical world of humanoid elements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

In transposing down to the key of D major, you need to raise the A natural in the key up a half step, to A sharp.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones


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