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Recent Examples of transmogrify
In that freedom, hip-hop music transmogrified from songs to studies.
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Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 12 Apr. 2023
In the 1980s and 1990s this transmogrified into an attack on science.
—Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 1 July 2020
After 40 years of getting worked over, Mercury would be transmogrified, or almost magically altered, and totally kaput.
—Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
Or change its identity or transmogrify into a different social function of a space.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2023
For those looking to dig deeper, here are the best books that deconstruct, analyze, and even transmogrify the star known as Marilyn Monroe.
—Nathan Smith, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2022
Cady seduces like a snake, charming his victims into their demise, but can as quickly transmogrify into a deranged beast striking fear into the Bowden family during a torrential storm.
—Lea Anderson, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2022
For most basketball fans, that joy will transmogrify into disappointment, sadness or even fleeting anger once their favorite team is eliminated.
—Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2021
Christians have been borrowing from other religions since the days when the pagan feast of Saturnalia transmogrified into Christmas and the Gaelic festival of Samhain became All Saints’ Day.
—The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 12 Apr. 2023
In the 1980s and 1990s this transmogrified into an attack on science.
—Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 1 July 2020
After 40 years of getting worked over, Mercury would be transmogrified, or almost magically altered, and totally kaput.
—Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
Or change its identity or transmogrify into a different social function of a space.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2023
For those looking to dig deeper, here are the best books that deconstruct, analyze, and even transmogrify the star known as Marilyn Monroe.
—Nathan Smith, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2022
Cady seduces like a snake, charming his victims into their demise, but can as quickly transmogrify into a deranged beast striking fear into the Bowden family during a torrential storm.
—Lea Anderson, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2022
For most basketball fans, that joy will transmogrify into disappointment, sadness or even fleeting anger once their favorite team is eliminated.
—Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2021
Christians have been borrowing from other religions since the days when the pagan feast of Saturnalia transmogrified into Christmas and the Gaelic festival of Samhain became All Saints’ Day.
—The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transmogrify
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Gradually, the music mutates into something more alien: off-key chiming of a clock, percussive piano clanking and plucking, atonal saxophone solos that sound as if an instrument is being dropped.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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If both viruses were to appear in one host, the bird flu virus could mutate into a pathogen that's more easily transmissible among humans.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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The batteries were also tested at temperatures as high as 200 degrees Celsius; the output voltage was nearly the same in spite of the heat, and the battery didn’t expand or deform excessively.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Feb. 2025
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Another expression emerged from everyday objects, which inspired Lynch to deform the mundane into a hellish din.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 Jan. 2025
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Benedict Chiu, United States, 2023 A member of a famous K-Pop boy band whose face has been disfigured by an accident must undergo surgery to repair his fracturing image.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
6 Mar. 2025
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One poster depicts Russian President Vladimir Putin, his face disfigured, behind bars.—
Michael Robinson Chávez,
NPR,
6 Jan. 2025
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The world has repeatedly redefined aid in response to shifting political and economic realities, and today’s challenges demand a rethink of foreign aid.—
Daphne Ewing-Chow,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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This retrograde asked you to redefine ambition on your own terms.—
Colin Bedell,
Them,
28 Feb. 2025
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Only in our current cultural moment, the stakes and outcomes are distorted in ways an artist of Simone’s era could never recognize.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
1 Mar. 2025
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But that bag still has a way of distorting things for some players.—
Danny Emerman,
The Mercury News,
26 Feb. 2025
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As a demonstration that politics have been refashioned as show business, the Democratic National Convention was beyond compare.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
5 Sep. 2024
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But the idea of an imperial America taking over a piece of Palestinian homeland – with American boots on the ground if necessary – and refashioning it into a glitzy Mediterranean playground is eye-popping.—
Howard LaFranchi,
The Christian Science Monitor,
5 Feb. 2025
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Rind even redesigned the masthead of the paper to make her own name more prominent and, through the inclusion of an illustration of a merchant ship, signal a stronger endorsement of the principles of free trade.—
Alexandra Cox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Mar. 2025
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In preparation for future missions, SpaceX redesigned Starship's flaps, computers, and fuel system to enable a full return to the launch site, mirroring the booster's successful recovery.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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The settlement also revises the penalty structure for a school that exits the ACC’s grant of rights, a term of art that refers to a school permitting its intellectual property and media rights to be used by the conference and its business partners.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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After the order was signed, the NCAA revised its own policy on trans athletes in women’s sports, though the revision has been seen as controversial by some.—
Scott Thompson,
Fox News,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Transmogrify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transmogrify. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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