transforming

verb

present participle of transform
as in converting
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 transforming Artificial intelligence is transforming leadership, but perhaps not in the ways most people imagine. — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 This is the web version of Fortune Gulf Brief, a weekly newsletter providing smart coverage on the capital, leaders, and policies transforming one of the world’s most consequential regions. — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026 Founded in 1969, the Booker has a reputation for transforming writers’ careers, with a globally minded judging panel set to reveal finalists in September and the winner in November. — Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026 Our dreams for the Sundance Film Festival in a new place are rapidly transforming into reality. — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 29 July 2026 Across the country, camp fees have risen sharply, transforming what was once a middle-class rite of passage into a major household expense. — Melissa Petro, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transforming
  1. converting
  2. remodeling
  3. transmuting
  4. metamorphosing
  5. transfiguring
Verb
  • The issue for the Heat is spacing, not necessarily 3-point shooting, of which the Heat have many players capable of converting.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
  • That’s converting a loss into an erasure, and erasures are much cheaper to correct than silent errors.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of converting
Verb
  • The teams who equipped a workforce instead of remodeling a house.
    — Terry Oroszi, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The Fox was taken over by a consortium of filmmakers led by Jason Reitman, who is working on remodeling the venue and has opened it to screenings this summer in advance of the remodeling as the Director’s Village.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 21 July 2026
Definition of remodeling
Verb
  • That bite and raw intensity produce some of the album’s standout moments, transmuting jungle’s physicality across a wide emotional range with poetic verve and Nia’s woody, vulnerable, yet strident timbre.
    — Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026
  • Afterwards, group members went on to form several other hugely meaningful outfits such as Slint, Gastr Del Sol, Bastro, Papa M and the For Carnation, transmuting Squirrel Bait’s Reagan-era aggression into more esoteric, impossible-to-classify sonic explorations.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 25 June 2026
Definition of transmuting
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  • For decades, biologists thought that early tetrapods, ancient vertebrates that started conquering the land over 300 million years ago, developed like modern amphibians—beginning their lives as purely aquatic tadpoles and then metamorphosing into terrestrial adults.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026
  • This office has been metamorphosing over time.
    — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026
Definition of metamorphosing
Verb
  • 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.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 30 Dec. 2025
Definition of transfiguring

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