transubstantiate

Example Sentences

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But lower courts cannot transubstantiate dissents into binding precedent through sheer force of repetition.

From Slate • Sep. 15, 2020

But maybe, Shin would have us believe, there’s a way to get past the limitations of our perspectives, to subvert our own framing devices via art’s ability to estrange and transubstantiate.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2020

It is now an idea that is asked to support and transubstantiate the weight of our time.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2019

In Capri Sun commercials, kids transubstantiate into especially viscous puddles of Capri Sun, in search of more Capri Sun.

From The Verge • Aug. 23, 2017

Commonplace gains nothing by being translated into rhyme, for it is something which no hocus-pocus can transubstantiate with the real presence of living thought.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell