How to Use transposition in a Sentence

transposition

noun

• But what’s happening is not a simple transposition of pre-isolation life into the weird new now.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
• Doolin had a minor operation last fall — an ulnar nerve transposition — to relieve pain that was building in his arm.
  — Dave Melton, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2021
• Gardenhire said the soreness is not related to the ulnar transposition surgery from last summer.
  — George Sipple, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2018
• Smith was also born with transposition of the great arteries and had the Mustard procedure surgery as an infant.
  — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 25 Dec. 2019
• The transposition of a single line works as an amplification, not a refutation.
  — Rod Smith, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• In the end, Gary got a deep plane facelift, deep necklift, brow lift, lower blepharoplasty with fat transposition and a rhinoplasty.
  — Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
• Aristocrats unable to fight off ghoulish modern upstarts was the transposition of the tragedy Jünger believed was taking place in his own time.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• There is a sensory transposition occurring—from eyes to ears, or vice versa—with the opportunity for all kinds of vital data to drop off or get lost in the process.
  — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2023
• Then came transposition and docking, the tricky maneuver wherein the command module pilot turned the spacecraft around, docked with the lunar module, and pulled it out of its adapter.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017
• After transposition, the ulnar nerve no longer experiences the same tension and constriction when patients flex their elbow.
  — Tj Gibson, azcentral, 9 May 2018
• Balmain fine jewelry is the transposition of the maison ethos, iconic designs, and singular savoir faire into bold jewelry lines.
  — Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 July 2022
• His injury past includes two elbow procedures in high school, for an ulnar nerve transposition and a stress fracture, and another in college to remove a screw from his elbow.
  — Matt Kawahara, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2026
• The Member States now have two months to provide detailed responses to the EC and complete their transposition.
  — Mary Foley, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
• Greene has had two major surgeries — elbow ligament reconstruction and ulnar nerve transposition — and has suffered from blister issues in the past.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2018
• There’s not an incredible amount of literal transposition of material from [Leamer’s] book to the screen.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
• The Captain may suffer from his transposition to a new format, but the camera’s all-seeing eye also allows these peripheral figures greater depth.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
• Williams got through the season and summer session in Storrs before undergoing an ulnar nerve transposition and scope in the back of her elbow on July 8.
  — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 12 Oct. 2021
• Imposition and transposition of borders do the same thing, usually less dramatically and more slowly.
  — Eric Gordy, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2018
• The painful consequence of that will be a clunky, suboptimal transposition of the physical to the virtual, right down—one fears—to an awkward videoconference cocktail hour.
  — Jonathan Becker, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2020
• With this minor transposition of circumstances, True West is a story of a meth (or opioid) zombie, who has come to extract a sacrifice from his more prosperous sibling.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
• The Tigers’ best pitcher, right-hander Michael Fulmer, recently underwent ulnar nerve transposition surgery.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2017
• The unit hosts a simple set of control buttons on the rear for transposition, and the entire head of the tuner rotates a full 360 degrees to allow for flexible placement and easy visibility.
  — Julian Vittorio, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2023
• Among these were melodic concepts like inversion (flipping a tune), transposition (shifting it up or down scales), retrograding (reversal), and translation (movement over time).
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2026
• So Monet’s transposition of the empirical world into colored light can also be seen in the context of Buddhist ideas about the interconnectedness of all things.
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2022
• After augmenting the software a bit to incorporate transposition options, AZDecrypt got to work, and soon yielded its first breakthroughs.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2024
• Fulmer, 24, has performed like a front-line pitcher in his first two seasons in the Major Leagues but is rehabilitating from ulnar nerve transposition surgery in his right elbow.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2017
• In September 2017, Fulmer underwent ulnar nerve transposition surgery in his right elbow.
  — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2026
• Many functions require long-pressing of buttons, and transposition is particularly clunky to navigate, traveling in only one direction and requiring users to press the button numerous times.
  — Julian Vittorio, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2023
• How to Solve the Code To solve part four, Dunin and other cryptologists have tried every method at their disposal, from polyalphabetic substitution to transposition.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2020
• In his essay, Carne-Ross, who has no Wikipedia page but warrants a bronze statue in the cultural commons, kicks things off by planting a flag, offering up the term transposition as another conception of what translators might do.
  — Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024