transmogrify
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He would soon transmogrify these mostly dismal experiences into art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 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
At 66 I haven’t got a lot of time left before I transmogrify into a maguey.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
If your boat and my knowledge doesn't transmogrify us from a pair of stone-brokes into a couple of bloated millionaires, I'm a Dutchman.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright
Like other climate denial claims, the urban planning concept transmogrified in the depths of the internet.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 19, 2023
Coupled with marketable if less visible engineering advances, the campaign transmogrified the cookie-cutter low-cost automobile that Hitler commissioned as “the people’s car” in the 1930s into the American counterculture’s adorable “Love Bug.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
“You experience someone who has put her past in a box and who through her immense talent has tried to reinvent herself and be saved and changed and transmogrified by the music.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
Maybe before you saw the package in Trader Joe's you assumed it might mean cheese on top of bread, or bread stuffed with cheese, or maybe bread that has been somehow transmogrified into cheese.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2022
The civilization he meant to build has transmogrified to a forest thick with traps.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
Adrien Merigeau’s fluidly surreal French dazzler “Genius Loci,” meanwhile, finds a solitary young woman’s restlessness about night in the city answered by the ceaseless transmogrifying of her surroundings, even herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2021
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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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