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
Retail British multinational retailer Marks & Spencer has appointed former Asos executive Jag Weatherley as transformation director for fashion, home and beauty.
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Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
Read the full Aquarius Daily Horoscope Pisces (February 19 - March 20)
Relationships may act as the catalyst for your next round of personal transformation.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
The emotional transformation of the narrator has the cadence of Alcoholics Anonymous about it.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
Yet what distinguishes Bowles’s work—what animates those strange, angular sentences, with their unexpected rhythms and turns of phrase and rabid energy—isn’t its interest in nonconformity but its obsession with spiritual transformation.
—Nicole Flattery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
Read the full Aquarius Daily Horoscope Pisces (February 19 - March 20)
Relationships may act as the catalyst for your next round of personal transformation.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
The emotional transformation of the narrator has the cadence of Alcoholics Anonymous about it.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
Yet what distinguishes Bowles’s work—what animates those strange, angular sentences, with their unexpected rhythms and turns of phrase and rabid energy—isn’t its interest in nonconformity but its obsession with spiritual transformation.
—Nicole Flattery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transformation
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During a two-point conversion play, Jennings caught the ball in the endzone, but was smashed between two Jaguars defenders.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Sep. 2025
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Their power play, with him as a main component, was below-average in both conversion rate and chance generation.—
The Athletic NHL,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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The trash-bin selection is one of the key steps in the city’s fitful transition to paid trash service, nearly three years after city voters narrowly approved a ballot measure allowing the city to start charging for it after more than a century.—
Sam Schulz,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Sep. 2025
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La Galerie du 19M Tokyo, which opens to the public on Tuesday, underlines the importance of skilled labor in the face of AI, generational transition and debate about the value of luxury goods, as the house prepares for the first show by its new artistic director Matthieu Blazy.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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The composition has many hallmarks of surrealism, including dream logic – the strange, flowing and often illogical progression of images reflecting the unpredictable nature of dreams – metamorphosis and psychic ambiguity.—
Sally Jane Brown,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025
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Still, the physical metamorphosis pales next to Johnson’s emotional excavation of Kerr, a UFC champion who battled addiction and personal demons behind his public victories.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Transformation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transformation. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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