transpose
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“It was my own personal triumph over dyslexia. When I was drawing up the plans, I kept worrying that I would transpose numbers and screw it all up, but it came out great,” he explained.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Nicole Eun-Ju Bell’s video and projection designs subtly transpose the setting when, for instance, Umma meets up with her son at church.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
In Tyson Louie’s league, the loser has to pose for a portrait that members then transpose into a scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
Kingsolver explained that it was "challenging and also fun to transpose Victorian characters and situations to my own place and time" for her 10th novel.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2023
So if none of these situations apply to you, it's time to learn to transpose.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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These are the techniques that Mr. Lerner transposes to his novels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
The previously published “White Sands National Monument, New Mexico,” 1964, transposes Winogrand’s fascination with alienated and isolated Americans into a beautiful blue-and-white image.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
The miracle of the painting is in the way Sargent transposes “there and then” into “here and now.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Open Fist Theatre Company transposes the action from ancient Greece to the pre-Civil War South in a provocative reimagining of Shakespeare’s sylvan fantasy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
Plato transposes the two next speeches, as in the Republic he would transpose the virtues and the mathematical sciences.
From Symposium by Jowett, Benjamin
As Singh tries to prevent that from happening, his efforts are transposed with Gaitonde’s story, an epic tale that examines the nature of power amid the city’s religious and economic tensions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Nor can encounters between Neanderthals and Sapiens be reduced to past loves or wars merely transposed from our modern imagination.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
At the stand of Avinox, a manufacturer of motors for electric bicycles, the DNA of parent company and Chinese drone specialist DJI has been transposed to cycling.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
The ruthless machinations of Gilded Age robber barons are transposed to New York’s hotels and banquet rooms—a story of love marketed to the highest bidder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
A piece will also sound higher or lower once it is transposed.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Takuya Otsuki, exhibiting at COHJU, draws on traditional Japanese art in his images, which pare down historical works into isolated, sometimes abstract elements, transposing them in mineral and dyed-mud pigments on hemp paper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
The transposing of a public role on a nonprofit world over the last year, Lanchance said, is an opportunity to keep the knowledge democratized.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026
But transposing this practice into the realm of climate would require investment, training, and infrastructure.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 6, 2023
Sohn and screenwriters John Hoberg, Kat Likkel and Brenda Hsueh are working well-known, much-beloved stories and tropes, transposing these tales into this fantastical world of humanoid elements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
If you are transposing because the music is too low or too high, decide how much higher or lower you want the music to sound.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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