transmogrifies

verb

present tense third-person singular of transmogrify
as in mutates

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  1. mutates
  2. deforms
  3. distorts
  4. redefines
  5. supplants
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  • Although flu seasons can vary in disease severity, the virus mutates so unpredictably that pandemic flu seasons – like those in 1918, 1957, 1968 and 2009 – are a recurring possibility.
    — Katrine L. Wallace, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
  • Measles mutates slowly enough that researchers can in many cases search for essentially the same strain when tracking its movements.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
Definition of mutates
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  • As the motor rotates the end, the rod deforms and stores elastic energy.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Working on his audio venture makes Jacob more narcissistic and less socially competent; the podcast deforms his understanding of what friends are for.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
Definition of deforms
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  • The importance of his work, the difficulty of it—the Hollywood reverence almost distorts it.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2026
  • But this perception completely distorts what most Palestinians believe and are prepared to accept.
    — Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of distorts
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  • Teams compensate with prompts and tool-specific definitions, so each new agent project quietly redefines the business from scratch.
    — Felix Liao, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Spacek defined the role, but Howell redefines it with just as much assurance.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of redefines
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  • Spectrum also supplants the V-2, the World War II weapon of terror, as the largest German rocket in history.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Leaders who build these practices into how AI gets deployed now safeguard their organizations from a culture where AI supplants human reasoning rather than supports it, and from the performance costs that follow.
    — Chris Rosenberg, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
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