as in converted
to change in form, appearance, or use
by clicking a few buttons, this toy car can be transformed into a robot
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Recent Examples of transformed
Sears Tower ended the Empire State Building’s four-decade reign as the world’s tallest and transformed the West Loop into a glittering office corridor.
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Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
The complex consists of a 1960s-era office block transformed into a five-star hotel, a photo studio revived as a fitness and swim club, and a brutalist parking garage converted into office spaces, with an art gallery set up in the old spiral parking ramp.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2026
Silberman was able to finish his studies at Johns Hopkins because of the 1944 GI Bill, which transformed access to higher education for veterans by covering tuition and living expenses.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
In 2004, Pennsylvania Avenue at Lafayette Park was transformed by the landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh into a lively pedestrian plaza where tourists mingled with protesters.
—Neil Flanagan, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
Delaney’s love of gardening, birds and the forest inspired her decision to be transformed into soil — literally — through a process known as natural organic reduction.
—Dorany Pineda, Fortune, 2 May 2026
As Earth’s tectonic plates shifted, huge volumes of volcanic gas and carbon dioxide transformed the atmosphere, sucking oxygen out of the oceans and devastating shallow-water environments.
—Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2026
Arden Fair was transformed into an indoor mall in 1971.
—Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
Austin is the most liberal city in Texas but it’s also being transformed by tech money.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
The complex consists of a 1960s-era office block transformed into a five-star hotel, a photo studio revived as a fitness and swim club, and a brutalist parking garage converted into office spaces, with an art gallery set up in the old spiral parking ramp.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2026
Silberman was able to finish his studies at Johns Hopkins because of the 1944 GI Bill, which transformed access to higher education for veterans by covering tuition and living expenses.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
In 2004, Pennsylvania Avenue at Lafayette Park was transformed by the landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh into a lively pedestrian plaza where tourists mingled with protesters.
—Neil Flanagan, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
Delaney’s love of gardening, birds and the forest inspired her decision to be transformed into soil — literally — through a process known as natural organic reduction.
—Dorany Pineda, Fortune, 2 May 2026
As Earth’s tectonic plates shifted, huge volumes of volcanic gas and carbon dioxide transformed the atmosphere, sucking oxygen out of the oceans and devastating shallow-water environments.
—Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2026
Arden Fair was transformed into an indoor mall in 1971.
—Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
Austin is the most liberal city in Texas but it’s also being transformed by tech money.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transformed
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The complex consists of a 1960s-era office block transformed into a five-star hotel, a photo studio revived as a fitness and swim club, and a brutalist parking garage converted into office spaces, with an art gallery set up in the old spiral parking ramp.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 May 2026
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Some of its generators are being converted to natural gas which will preserve about 100 existing jobs.—
Kirk Siegler,
NPR,
2 May 2026
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The house next door to me could have been remodeled, and two ancient oaks could have been saved.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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The three-bedroom, two-bathroom house was originally built in 1947 and has since been remodeled.—
Joyce Chen,
Architectural Digest,
24 Apr. 2026
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The show that began as a bottom-up look at the cutthroat world of finance has metamorphosed into something more dismal.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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The pressure and heat of deep burial and tectonic events over eons have transformed the silt into a hard metamorphic rock, and the microbial carbon in it has metamorphosed into graphite.—
Howard Lee,
ArsTechnica,
11 Aug. 2025
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That chapter taught us that even our pain can be transmuted into power.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
30 Dec. 2025
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American narratives about racial prejudice, immigration, and injustice have been transmuted into the just-different-enough context of Catholic versus Protestant battle lines.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
27 Nov. 2025
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According to sources, Alchemised began as Dramione before being transfigured into a dark romantasy.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Transformed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transformed. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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