as in to transform
to take on a different shape, appearance, or state
When it emerged from its chrysalis, the caterpillar had morphed into a striking butterfly.
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Recent Examples of morph
The issue morphed into a kind of ideology at Anthropic, with Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei its high priest and visionary.
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Parmy Olson, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
Their dinner date has morphed into afternoon cocktails — a bourbon with Diet Coke for her and a Manhattan for him.
—Pilar Melendez, NBC news, 4 Feb. 2026
Her characters often demonstrated how quickly and seamlessly a cyclone of cheerful mannerisms could morph into a wailing typhoon of uncorked madness.
—Merrill Markoe, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Her son looked up at her with wide eyes, and her worried face morphed into a smile.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
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Parmy Olson, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
Their dinner date has morphed into afternoon cocktails — a bourbon with Diet Coke for her and a Manhattan for him.
—Pilar Melendez, NBC news, 4 Feb. 2026
Her characters often demonstrated how quickly and seamlessly a cyclone of cheerful mannerisms could morph into a wailing typhoon of uncorked madness.
—Merrill Markoe, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Her son looked up at her with wide eyes, and her worried face morphed into a smile.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for morph
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Paris — Gisèle Pelicot emerged as a global feminist hero in 2024 by transforming her horrific, personal story into a public battle against rape culture.—
Saskya Vandoorne,
CNN Money,
12 Feb. 2026
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The modern workplace has a strong flavor of poor management, with poor leadership quickly transforming what started as a good job into a bad one, with burnout and heavy workloads following soon afterward.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
11 Feb. 2026
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In the games, the virus is used as a type of biological warfare that can mutate those exposed to it.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Feb. 2026
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Measles mutates slowly enough that researchers can in many cases search for essentially the same strain when tracking its movements.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Morph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morph. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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