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
Seeing Powell transmogrify from nerdy Gary to five o’clock shadow Ron and back again is both hilarious and tantalizing, while Arjona has a big-eyed innocence crossed with wily smarts that keeps everyone, including Gary, guessing.
From New York Times • May 23, 2024
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
The concluding fire-and-brimstone fireworks of “Vingt Regards” transmogrify that turmoil of liberation into a transcendental visitation of bliss in the mystic beyond.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2020
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 Rockwood, Roy
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