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Recent Examples of transmutation
The next generation of Kardashians will soon enough inherit the dynasty’s now quieter cultural dominion, despite the media’s relentless transmutation, because the family has become powerful enough to run on autopilot.
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M. J. Corey, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator — have observed a real-life transmutation of lead into gold.
—Victoria Corless, Space.com, 13 May 2025
Fulfilling the dream of medieval alchemists, physicists have observed the transmutation of lead into gold—through nuclear physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
The transmutation favored the Liberals for three big reasons.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2025
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M. J. Corey, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator — have observed a real-life transmutation of lead into gold.
—Victoria Corless, Space.com, 13 May 2025
Fulfilling the dream of medieval alchemists, physicists have observed the transmutation of lead into gold—through nuclear physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
The transmutation favored the Liberals for three big reasons.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transmutation
Noun
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All these services, a total transformation, were offered in one convenient location.—
Catherine Lacey,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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The country is spending huge amounts on its economic transformation plan, with around $150 billion in contracts awarded in 2024.—
Matthew Martin,
semafor.com,
5 Oct. 2025
Noun
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With Mercury entering its retrograde period Leo on the 18th, your sense of the world is going through a total metamorphosis.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 2025
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The composition has many hallmarks of surrealism, including dream logic – the strange, flowing and often illogical progression of images reflecting the unpredictable nature of dreams – metamorphosis and psychic ambiguity.—
Sally Jane Brown,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This signaled that the mutation was somewhere on the X chromosome, since females have two of those, and presumably one lacked the killer mutation.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
6 Oct. 2025
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Despite a clean mammogram and sonogram months earlier, results from a genetic test revealed that Martin had inherited the BRCA2 mutation – not from her mother, who is a breast cancer survivor herself, but from her father’s side of the family.—
Alex Ross,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Transmutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transmutation. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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