Thesaurus results for ALCHEMIZING

alchemizing

verb

present participle of alchemize

as in transforming

to change in form, appearance, or use time and fiction writers have alchemized these Wild West thugs into romantic heroes

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Recent Examples of alchemizing The film is really about alchemizing trauma and overcoming trauma. —

Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Mar. 2026 The 40-year old multi-hyphenate creative has lived an abundant life in her four decades, which includes sculpting an enviable body from grit, alchemizing grief after losing her brother, father and mother a few years apart, and building a commendable career by embracing the uncomfortable. —

Essence, 16 Jan. 2026 Few authors are better equipped to address these questions than the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, who made a name for himself by alchemizing his private life into approximately 3,500 pages of literary voyeurism and stamping it with the name of Hitler’s manifesto. —

Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026

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Second, the same precision-medicine approaches that are now transforming oncology must be applied to mental illness, identifying biomarkers early enough to alter disease trajectory.

— Eric J. Nestler, STAT, 28 Apr. 2026
News articles and photos of the casual picnic enamored Americans, transforming their view of the royals as rigid and aristocratic to more down-to-earth.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026