as in conversion
a change in form, appearance, or use
a raven-haired starlet who underwent an attention-getting transformation and showed up at the awards ceremony as a blonde
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Recent Examples of transformation
Bo’s transformation from a shelter pet living on the street to a police therapy dog serving his community should inspire us all.
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Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
Within a few months, Dylan would go through a transformation.
—Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2025
Deutch took fans even further into her journey by filming the phases of her transformation.
—Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
What does this tell us about what will happen to Earth and the rest of our solar system when the sun undergoes this violent transformation?
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Nov. 2025
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Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
Within a few months, Dylan would go through a transformation.
—Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2025
Deutch took fans even further into her journey by filming the phases of her transformation.
—Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
What does this tell us about what will happen to Earth and the rest of our solar system when the sun undergoes this violent transformation?
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transformation
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The Commanders failed to make the 2-point conversion and were down 16 points to the Lions.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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The Teflon-like molecular layer pushed perovskite solar cells to an impressive 27 percent power conversion efficiency.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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The team envisions this work accelerating the transition from laboratory prototypes to large-scale production, aligning closely with the nation’s carbon peaking and neutrality targets.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Nov. 2025
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In October, China constructed a solar farm complex on the Tibetan Plateau which is seven times the size of Manhattan, as part of its transition to renewable power.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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His fingerprints are all over the 21st-century Big Inventive Novel, with its sentient raindrops (Elif Shafak), its melodramatic families (Kiran Desai), its metamorphoses of race (Mohsin Hamid) and history (Marlon James).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Her new life is the culmination of a metamorphosis that has been both soul-crushing and cathartic.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Transformation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transformation. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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