transposed

past tense of transpose

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Recent Examples of transposed As Singh tries to prevent that from happening, his efforts are transposed with Gaitonde’s story, an epic tale that examines the nature of power amid the city’s religious and economic tensions. Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026 Two couples, one dinner party — that’s the bare-bones basis of The Invite, an adaptation of the 2020 Spanish movie The People Upstairs that feels tailor-made to be franchised, translated to just about any language, and transposed onto just about any upper-middle-class milieu. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2026 The caps-lock title and eff-you art work, in which the artist’s image is transposed onto a hand as a triumphant middle finger, overshoots the tone. Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 11 June 2026 The underdog framing, the embassy accounts running wild on X, the cultural-reference dunking on a bloated American president—these are Ukrainian moves, transposed to a different war. Bobby Ghosh, Time, 27 May 2026 Books were produced collaboratively; writers sent off handwritten manuscripts to printers, who transposed them onto a printing press before setting them to paper. Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026 Tardieu has transposed the story to the Normandy countryside for her adaptation which is due to begin shooting next month with Benoît Magimel, Léa Drucker and Melanie Thierry in the cast. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 18 May 2026 There was 24-hour radio news, which Ted Turner had used as a model or a format that would be transposed onto television. Dana Taylor, USA Today, 13 May 2026 Director Harry Lighton transposed the story from the 1970s to the present, casting a hulking Alexander Skarsgård as the gorgeous and emotionally remote biker Ray, and Melling as the shy, diminutive parking attendant who submits himself to Ray. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transposed
Verb
  • The city and the Earthquakes, San Jose’s hometown Major League Soccer club, transformed the square into a weeks-long festival.
    Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 19 July 2026
  • The Fan Village in Rockefeller Center will have programming on game day, with the rink transformed into a temporary pitch.
    Ali Farooqui, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026
Verb
  • After last month’s fires near the Krome detention center, ICE relocated people out of precautions.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 18 July 2026
  • Ten people were rescued and sent to the hospital, while more than 1,100 people have been relocated.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
Verb
  • The tiny extra amount of hydrogen is converted into a tremendous amount of energy.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 July 2026
  • The bulk of the campus had been quickly converted after its previous occupant went down in the fallout from the dot-com bust.
    Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
Verb
  • At the same time, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s vast economic reforms sparked high inflation after fuel subsidies were removed three years ago and the currency was devalued.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
  • In Utah, a yearlong audit of voter registration released in May found 27 noncitizens who were removed from voter rolls out of more than 2 million voters.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 18 July 2026
Verb
  • Connecticut’s own tax fairness studies also show regressive tax burdens are more easily transferred from one entity to another.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2026
  • In the case of the missing children, they may have been trapped under the rubble, separated from their relatives, transferred without immediate communication or belonged to entire families whose whereabouts remain unknown.
    Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • But overall, has the focus shifted away from set pieces across recent World Cups?
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 21 July 2026
  • De la Fuente wisely shifted to a more tiki-taka-esque focus with a stout defense moving forward and hoped that his wingers would get healthy as the tournament progressed.
    Patrick Sung Cuadrado, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
Verb
  • Salvador Perez hit a homer off Padres reliever Matt Waldron, a two-run shot that moved the Royals captain slightly closer to the club’s all-time record.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 19 July 2026
  • Trump then took the microphone and moved the conversation onto Balogun’s red card.
    Adam Crafton, New York Times, 18 July 2026

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