transubstantiating

verb

present participle of transubstantiate
as in transforming
to change in form, appearance, or use the novelist transubstantiated the joys and sorrows of his early years into a charming fable about childhood

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  1. transforming
  2. converting
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  • His works often explore the relationship between function and visual storytelling, transforming everyday tools into objects with strong mechanical identity.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Few people on the continent seem to recognize that multibillion investments by US companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Amazon in space, and their many imitators in China, are radically transforming spaceflight.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of transforming
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  • After the pandemic shuttered his Inglewood barbershop job, Hector Trinidad reinvented himself, converting a yellow school bus into a curbside barbershop parked just outside USC.
    — Francesca Pinney, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • These questions explain why transcription quality matters far beyond simply converting speech into text.
    — Beth Worthy, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of converting
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“Transubstantiating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transubstantiating. Accessed 10 Sep. 2026.

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