Thesaurus results for TRANSFORMING

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 By transforming the application of violence and expanding warfare from limited conflicts to existential risks, this inflection point requires a new way of thinking about and constructing alliances. — Dan Driscoll, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026 Originality often lies not in creating from nothing but in transforming what already exists. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 Paris’ workout rooms are being revamped and rethought, transforming into something closer to social clubs. — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026 Live Healthy Chicago aims to turn 130/80 and 1,000 into a movement transforming a silent epidemic into a celebration of lives saved. — Garth Walker, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026 One was transforming the MTV logo into her logo, and another was the bathroom stalls. — Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026 The Richmond Tiny House Village held its grand opening this week, transforming what was once an empty lot into a community designed to provide young adults with housing, stability and job-training opportunities. — Maddie White, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026 That evening, the artist performed one classic after another, donning her best stage outfits and transforming the concert hall into a veritable runway. — Blanche Marcel, Vanity Fair, 20 Sep. 2026 But despite its imperfections, AI is already transforming the way that most people practice law. — Logan Brown, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026

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The company estimates that converting the existing US fleet could avoid about 20 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually while providing gigawatts of additional generating capacity.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
An increase in income might come from selling assets, converting a pretax individual retirement account to a Roth IRA or getting a bonus, for example.

— Kate Dore, CFP®, EA, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026

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Throughout the program’s 11 years, students have worked on four houses, remodeling two and building two from scratch in partnership with Habitat for Humanity.

— Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026
Typically, McDonald's chips in some support for franchisees who are remodeling their restaurants.

— Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of remodeling

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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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The process of metamorphosing ashes into a diamond generally takes seven to 11 months once EverDear receives the material.

— Yvonne Villasenor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
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

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