transfigure

Two of the participants transfigure their own work.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023

These phenomena transfigure copyrights, patents, and trademarks into subjects of everyday importance.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2022

These are process-driven stories that actively engage, and transfigure, the moment that spawns them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2021

In the video, Ms. Gaignard sings on, unperturbed, all the while recording the experience to transfigure it into art.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2016

It kept crackling and sparking at odd moments, and every time Ron tried to transfigure his beetle it engulfed him in thick gray smoke that smelled of rotten eggs.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

What radiates from Eika’s gritty magical realism is ambient but potent: a grief so profound that it transfigures, a loneliness so abject that it fractures perception.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2021

In an extended recording-studio sequence, Aretha’s sisters, Carolyn and Erma Franklin, sing all the backup vocals — not Cissy Houston, whose wordless soprano counterpoint transfigures the song.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2021

All great art is consoling because it transfigures our ordinary feelings into something bigger.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2016

It gets to the very essence of movie-going and transfigures the concept.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2016

Rhythm perpetually not only transfigures the poetical expression of an idea, but makes the existence of that expression possible.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

Her summer is transfigured by their innocent trysts: “There was the still water of a lake. There were a garden’s scents and its delicious twilight air.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

His inauguration was a ritual of devotion, an arena where the less powerful — which means practically everybody — was transfigured by his presence.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025

At the instant the lunar disk slips entirely over the solar disk, the sun is abruptly transfigured into a foreign object.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

The following year, he changed his own name to Akhenaten, meaning “the transfigured spirit of the solar orb,” and moved himself and his entire family to the new city.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

He should have been transfigured by what he had seen.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Still, the speed at which generative AI appears to be capable of transfiguring workplaces — seemingly overnight — is dizzying, especially relative to prior technological breakthroughs.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023

Fellman’s playful but deliberate approach to form, his deft way of presenting his own canon and then transfiguring it on the page, would feel familiar to them.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2022

Beyond that transfiguring, it’s an otherwise archetypal L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2021

But, as the linguist Gretchen McCulloch reveals in “Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language,” her effervescent study of how the digital world is transfiguring English, informal writing is relatively new.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 26, 2019

Her face was a reflection of many things; a sum of many transfiguring, even violent events.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy