transmutation

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The sculpture relates to “yearning for freedom and transmutation in constricting situations,” Monteiro says.

From New York Times

To him the sun was less a stable object than a river, in its perpetual transmutation, and he said he never saw the same eclipse twice.

From New York Times

It’s when those words are set to music and dramatized by a singer of skill and sympathy that the magical transmutation occurs.

From Los Angeles Times

Pinocchio’s transmutation from the 2-D animated design into one with volume makes for an almost identical copy because he remains an inanimate object that can keep his cartoonish features.

From Los Angeles Times

He says the stone carvings suggest that three rulers, all of whom died between 722AD and 776AD, were taken to the "cave of the dead" for their "transmutation".

From BBC