transmogrify

Evolution has similarly purloined existing features and modified them, using great thrift, for example, to transmogrify a piece of jaw into an ear or to transform a leg into a wing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

It’s likely in the middle of that process now, and could transmogrify itself into a star in as little as 200,000 years.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 24, 2023

Which leaves open the question of whether New York state prosecutors can transmogrify this conduct into a state crime.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023

“That a special purpose grand jury cannot issue an indictment does not diminish the criminal nature of its work or somehow transmogrify that criminal investigation into a civil one,” Judge McBurney wrote.

From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2022

Whoeber said Washington White wanted ter transmogrify hissef to a new planet?

From On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake by Roy Rockwood

Consequently, construction delays mounted, all transmogrified into change orders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

The air around me was sour and stale, transmogrified by a mass of sweating bodies.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2024

Like other climate denial claims, the urban planning concept transmogrified in the depths of the internet.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 19, 2023

Hideously transmogrified, they struggle upstream past the banks of Pacific Northwest lakes, rivers and streams in an intricate and terrifying water ballet.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

Fragments of food are transmogrified into cellular machinery.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

According to cast member Kyle Sullivan, “There was this weird dynamic where they were taking something that exists in an adult context, like ‘Fear Factor,’ and transmogrifying it for kids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

Guitar Hero reanimated the music video game genre when it launched in 2005, magically transmogrifying players into bona fide fret-shredding, tremolo-slapping Rock Gods.

From Time ● Aug. 23, 2016

“Thank you for speaking, and speaking from your heart,” Cruz said warmly before transmogrifying into his more lawyerly self.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2016

The hopes of transmogrifying itself into a second-home haven have fallen flat, and shiny, largely vacant waterfront condos loom over the charitable bay with walls that gather salt for the wounds.

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2014

Walter and Ralph were not long in transmogrifying their appearance, and had soon the air of two respectable serving-men in a Flemish household.

From St. George for England by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty