as in transformations
a change in form, appearance, or use
the metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies the metamorphosis of the abandoned factory into a mixed-use property
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to change in form, appearance, or use
a science fiction story in which radiation metamorphoses people into giant bugs
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Recent Examples of metamorphoses
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
My son had to work to follow Jack’s metamorphoses, to track the relationship between the spells and their consequences.
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David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Lauren Groff,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
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His fingerprints are all over the 21st-century Big Inventive Novel, with its sentient raindrops (Elif Shafak), its melodramatic families (Kiran Desai), its metamorphoses of race (Mohsin Hamid) and history (Marlon James).
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Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
My son had to work to follow Jack’s metamorphoses, to track the relationship between the spells and their consequences.
—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
The Tale of Genji ’s early chapters are rooted in fairy-tale monogatari, but the book soon metamorphoses into its own strange thing, a courtly romance that follows Prince Genji over his half century of life, and then, after Genji’s death, takes up the lives of the next generation.
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Lauren Groff,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for metamorphoses
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This led to vast transformations in surgery, childbirth, handwashing, sterilization and infection control, per NIH and the Science History Institute.
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Organizational transformations frequently fail, not due to strategy, but because leadership teams lack readiness.
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As artificial intelligence transforms the job market and rising living costs squeeze family budgets, the University of California system is making the case that its degrees remain valuable investments.
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Each chair transforms into a full-size foam mattress that's already stored inside -- no air pumps or extra storage required.
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Funnel analysis closes the loop between upper-funnel acquisition and downstream conversions.
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Future projects being planned in the central city for delivery over the next five years will include other office-to-apartment conversions and new housing built from the ground up.
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Carli Lloyd converts a penalty kick for Team USA and a 1-0 lead.
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What The Gap Actually Looks Like A performance marketer optimizing against a 14-day window will buy traffic that converts quickly—discount-seekers, single-purchase intenders, the cohorts cheapest to acquire and fastest to leave.
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“Metamorphoses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metamorphoses. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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