transmutation

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Recent Examples of transmutation That's right, this is a big moment of transition, transmutation, and transformation. Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 24 Apr. 2025 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for transmutation
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Noun
  • Artificial intelligence is reshaping the global workforce by automating routine and repetitive tasks, and industry leaders expect this to prompt a reduction or transformation of certain roles across industries.
    Akash Sriram, USA Today, 19 June 2025
  • While many are hiring general contractors and specialty service providers, the couple in the viral clip proved that some transformations don't require a contractor's license—just time, creativity and determination.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • The resulting piece was a pair of butterfly wings braided into her hair intended to symbolize her recent metamorphosis.
    Jessie Schiewe, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Jenkins’ push to help more prosecutors understand and value this metamorphosis might be crucial to helping the public support it as well — especially for those D.A.s whose constituents are just fine with a system that locks up men to suffer for their (often atrocious) crimes.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2025
Noun
  • With gene editing, scientists are able to input code into the body’s genes that tell it to stop producing the mutation that is causing the abnormal red blood cells.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 19 June 2025
  • Overall, mutations in PTEN are among the most common mutations in sporadic cancers.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 12 June 2025

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“Transmutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transmutation. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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