as in transforming
to change in form, appearance, or use
married life has seemingly transfigured his formerly aimless existence
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Recent Examples of transfiguring
And as our correspondence has moved largely online – transfiguring into WhatsApp messages, video calls, or just an exchange of memes – our communication and language have changed accordingly.
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Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 30 Dec. 2025
Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 30 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transfiguring
transforming
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This environment is continuously unlocking new pathways to discovering and solving problems, and the very tools of science itself are transforming in unprecedented ways.—
Rachel Nuwer,
Scientific American,
16 June 2026
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In one engraving from van Deventer’s manual, his arm is shown inserted into an empty uterus almost up to the elbow, the engraver’s close, texturing lines transforming his hand into a radiating light within a cavernous female darkness.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
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“Transfiguring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transfiguring. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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