as in transforming
to change in form, appearance, or use
in his elegy on his deceased wife, the poet has transmuted inconsolable grief into high art
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Recent Examples of transmuting
In the business classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay examined the psychology of crowd behavior and mass hysteria throughout history, from the Dutch Tulip Mania of the 1630s to humanity’s historical obsession with transmuting base metals into gold.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
The Arriscan can scan up to five frames per second, transmuting film into digital form.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Her education in Brussels was one of the turning points in her life, initiating deeply conflicting private emotions and an unrequited love that took her years to recover from, its influence bleeding into all her books and transmuting into her currently gestating novel, Villette.
—Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
The Arriscan can scan up to five frames per second, transmuting film into digital form.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Her education in Brussels was one of the turning points in her life, initiating deeply conflicting private emotions and an unrequited love that took her years to recover from, its influence bleeding into all her books and transmuting into her currently gestating novel, Villette.
—Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transmuting
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The team recently created a storage system that enables information written into DNA to be edited, therefore transforming it from a one-time storage medium into a rewritable digital hard drive.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Mar. 2026
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Aritzia excels at transforming timeless closet classics into trendy, elevated essentials—much like this effortlessly chic deep V-neck sweater that rings in over $100.—
Julia Morlino,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Mar. 2026
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Dallas pushes to keep the team West said Dallas remains in active talks with the franchise about staying at American Airlines Center, including discussions about converting the building into a hockey‑specific venue.—
Doug Myers,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2026
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The labor-intensive process of converting play calls into diagrams has also proven to be a fertile learning ground for the crop of coaches that have come up under them.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Transmuting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transmuting. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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