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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 transformations
Like a high-speed camera, the XFEL enabled the scientists to film the rapid transformations as water molecules locked into their new arrangement.
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Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
To see one of the coolest Black Lagoon transformations, head to the Marigny neighborhood to the award-winning cocktail dive bar, Anna’s.
—Jenny Adams, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
Indiana’s Curt Cignetti, by contrast, has pulled off one of the most impressive transformations in the history of the sport in the span of just 19 games.
—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Irving was writing before the Americanized spelling of words like scepter, pioneered by Noah Webster, had fully taken hold, a reminder that the transformations the story describes were still very much ongoing.
—John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
There’s evidence that these kinds of transformations aren’t getting the investment that AI tools for sales and marketing have received.
—Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
Honest, intimate, and full of heart, these films capture the quiet transformations that shape us.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
These are essentially gothic works, in which bleary, nocturnal isolation opens a door to bizarre impulses and uncanny transformations.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
However, Hiro, who counts Bradley Cooper, Gary Oldman and Charlize Theron as some of his most iconic transformations, says recreating Kerr’s prominent brow bone on Johnson was the most challenging prosthetic.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
To see one of the coolest Black Lagoon transformations, head to the Marigny neighborhood to the award-winning cocktail dive bar, Anna’s.
—Jenny Adams, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
Indiana’s Curt Cignetti, by contrast, has pulled off one of the most impressive transformations in the history of the sport in the span of just 19 games.
—Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Irving was writing before the Americanized spelling of words like scepter, pioneered by Noah Webster, had fully taken hold, a reminder that the transformations the story describes were still very much ongoing.
—John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
There’s evidence that these kinds of transformations aren’t getting the investment that AI tools for sales and marketing have received.
—Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
Honest, intimate, and full of heart, these films capture the quiet transformations that shape us.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
These are essentially gothic works, in which bleary, nocturnal isolation opens a door to bizarre impulses and uncanny transformations.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
However, Hiro, who counts Bradley Cooper, Gary Oldman and Charlize Theron as some of his most iconic transformations, says recreating Kerr’s prominent brow bone on Johnson was the most challenging prosthetic.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transformations
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The purchase of both WLDB-FM and WLUM-FM, and their conversions to Christian music formats, will be completed later this fall pending Federal Communications Commission approval, according to a statement sent to the Journal Sentinel by a spokesperson from K-Love.—
Piet Levy,
jsonline.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Engram led Denver with five first-half touches and came up big with two early third-down conversions.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
13 Oct. 2025
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WisDOT recommends drivers operate at a safe speed, eliminate distractions, use high beams as daylight transitions to dusk and make sure everyone is buckled up.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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The CEOs of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Citigroup have all undergone CEO transitions since that time.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Transformations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transformations. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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