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Recent Examples of transmutation
This realignment will catalyze the transmutation of negative thought patterns into a higher state of cognitive resonance, thereby enabling the manifestation of your innermost desires through the law of quantum attraction.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Williams compares his project to sampling, riffing on DeCarava’s work as an act of transmutation.
—Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Prophecy is about just how dangerous women in STEM — that is, sorcery, transmutation, eugenics, and mothering — can be.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
In any case, whether by accident or by design, the transmutation of a vulgar old Jewface number into a civic hymn is hard to resist as metaphor—an emblem of minstrelsy’s fugitive movement through American life.
—Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Williams compares his project to sampling, riffing on DeCarava’s work as an act of transmutation.
—Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Prophecy is about just how dangerous women in STEM — that is, sorcery, transmutation, eugenics, and mothering — can be.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
In any case, whether by accident or by design, the transmutation of a vulgar old Jewface number into a civic hymn is hard to resist as metaphor—an emblem of minstrelsy’s fugitive movement through American life.
—Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transmutation
Noun
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Jefferies said shares can stage a recovery as the Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein parent undergoes a business transformation.—
Sean Conlon,
CNBC,
14 May 2025
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As the moon harmonizes with Mars, psychological exploration enables external transformation.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
14 May 2025
Noun
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Villa’s on-field metamorphosis has been propelled by big spending off it.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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Eggs hatch in the early spring, spend a few months as larvae before undergoing metamorphosis, and emerge as adults in July.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Influenza pandemics are shaped by more than viral mutation.—
John Drake,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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The microscopic gene-editors zeroed in on one of Muldoon's mutations so tiny molecular scissors could perform a kind of genetic surgery — literally rewriting his genetic code to fix his defect.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
15 May 2025
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“Transmutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transmutation. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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