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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
In the end, Rosalía breaks free, transforming into a dove that takes flight.
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Luisa Calle, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2025
In the winter of 1907, Toklas entered Stein’s life, gradually transforming it.
—Daphne Merkin, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
To begin the process of transforming the pitching staff, the Nationals outrighted three pitchers off the 40-man roster on Wednesday, according to the transactions log on their official team site.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
What remains certain is that safety innovation is transforming transportation.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Advanced technologies are quietly transforming how these vessels move through the water—reducing emissions, improving efficiency, and charting a more sustainable course for the future of ocean travel.
—Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 29 Oct. 2025
On the one hand, there would be double-neutrino double-beta decay, where the parent nucleus would emit two electrons and two neutrinos, transforming two of the neutrons in the nucleus into protons in the process.
—Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
In Opa-locka, a place whose fantastical origin story has long overshadowed its tangible historic sites, 15 stops across its historic core is transforming the way the city is seen and felt.
—Carmen F De Terenzio, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
By transforming contaminated land into what scientists describe as self-cleaning biogeochemical reactors, the technology redefines how soil restoration can be achieved.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
Luisa Calle, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2025
In the winter of 1907, Toklas entered Stein’s life, gradually transforming it.
—Daphne Merkin, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
To begin the process of transforming the pitching staff, the Nationals outrighted three pitchers off the 40-man roster on Wednesday, according to the transactions log on their official team site.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
What remains certain is that safety innovation is transforming transportation.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Advanced technologies are quietly transforming how these vessels move through the water—reducing emissions, improving efficiency, and charting a more sustainable course for the future of ocean travel.
—Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 29 Oct. 2025
On the one hand, there would be double-neutrino double-beta decay, where the parent nucleus would emit two electrons and two neutrinos, transforming two of the neutrons in the nucleus into protons in the process.
—Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
In Opa-locka, a place whose fantastical origin story has long overshadowed its tangible historic sites, 15 stops across its historic core is transforming the way the city is seen and felt.
—Carmen F De Terenzio, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
By transforming contaminated land into what scientists describe as self-cleaning biogeochemical reactors, the technology redefines how soil restoration can be achieved.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transforming
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In another development, researchers in Canada have discovered a previously unknown bacterium capable of converting food waste into renewable natural gas, which opens new opportunities for carbon-neutral fuel production.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Oct. 2025
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Miami-Dade College took control in 2005, fully restoring the building and converting it into its current form as a home for the college’s cultural programs.—
Douglas Markowitz,
Miami Herald,
28 Oct. 2025
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Kelly Emerson, senior designer at Aidan Design in Silver Spring, Maryland, finds that this reads early 2000s, and Dallen Russell, remodeling advisor at InSite Builders & Remodeling in Bethesda, Maryland, agrees.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
8 Oct. 2025
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The program, which is estimated to initially cost the brand about $1 billion, involves remodeling more than 1,000 Starbucks locations in the US and Canada over the next year along with closing more than 400 in the last three months.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
2 Oct. 2025
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In the business classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay examined the psychology of crowd behavior and mass hysteria throughout history, from the Dutch Tulip Mania of the 1630s to humanity’s historical obsession with transmuting base metals into gold.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
7 Oct. 2025
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The Arriscan can scan up to five frames per second, transmuting film into digital form.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Transforming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transforming. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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