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Recent Examples of transmutation
The process of discovering how to convert my rage into strength was transmutation.
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Kelly Sundberg
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
This strategy reduces risks to the entire transmutation process, Hirshfield says, because issues arising from one accelerator would not compromise the entire supply chain as would be the case for a singular large accelerator.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 July 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
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Kelly Sundberg
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
This strategy reduces risks to the entire transmutation process, Hirshfield says, because issues arising from one accelerator would not compromise the entire supply chain as would be the case for a singular large accelerator.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 July 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transmutation
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The finale stops on the shot of with The Assassin (Anthony Ramos), Jeremy (Jeremy Pope) and Jordan (Jessica Alexander) looking on in shock as Cooper is about to reveal his transformation, his hand breaking through the show’s signature cocoon.—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Mar. 2026
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Chief executive Carolyn McCall said the results demonstrate the scale of ITV’s transformation.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
5 Mar. 2026
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Netflix’s metamorphosis into a fully traditional movie studio, complete with all the frictions of theatrical, remains incomplete, and may stay that way.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 Feb. 2026
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Astronomers have witnessed one of our universe's biggest stars transforming into a rare stellar body, and the dramatic metamorphosis may be the prequel to a powerful supernova explosion that sees this star birth a black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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Many earlier drives failed because target organisms developed mutations, thus preventing CRISPR cutting.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Feb. 2026
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That path is built for one child and one mutation, by one desperate family at a time.—
Judy Stecker,
STAT,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Transmutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transmutation. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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