transmogrify
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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
“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
The play is treated as though it might at any moment transmogrify into a musical.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2019
I knew it was necessary to surprise him, and so I borrowed the photograph and used it to transmogrify the queen of spades card.
From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel
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