as in transformed
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 morphed
In another demonstration, images encoded into flat films gradually became visible as the material morphed into dome-like 3D structures.
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Feb. 2026
The conversation began in the culinary sphere, but quickly morphed from food to food writing to writing to the arts overall.
—Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
Several shops have morphed into quasi-relief sites, providing aid to city residents and people protesting the crackdown in addition to their regular trade.
—Connor Greene, Time, 6 Feb. 2026
The issue morphed into a kind of ideology at Anthropic, with Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei its high priest and visionary.
—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 son looked up at her with wide eyes, and her worried face morphed into a smile.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
Expressly used for events, the station’s Platform 3 morphed into the Edo-Tokyo Museum, complete with exhibitions, illuminations, food tastings, and the sense that both the Japanese capital’s past and future have always been at home in Ryogoku.
—Jonathan Delise, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2026
Yet our society has morphed into a segregated form of free speech that erodes the very essence of such freedom.
—Sheldon Jacobson, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2026
Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Feb. 2026
The conversation began in the culinary sphere, but quickly morphed from food to food writing to writing to the arts overall.
—Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
Several shops have morphed into quasi-relief sites, providing aid to city residents and people protesting the crackdown in addition to their regular trade.
—Connor Greene, Time, 6 Feb. 2026
The issue morphed into a kind of ideology at Anthropic, with Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei its high priest and visionary.
—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 son looked up at her with wide eyes, and her worried face morphed into a smile.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
Expressly used for events, the station’s Platform 3 morphed into the Edo-Tokyo Museum, complete with exhibitions, illuminations, food tastings, and the sense that both the Japanese capital’s past and future have always been at home in Ryogoku.
—Jonathan Delise, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2026
Yet our society has morphed into a segregated form of free speech that erodes the very essence of such freedom.
—Sheldon Jacobson, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for morphed
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Falling launch costs, fueled largely by reusable rockets, have transformed access to low Earth orbit (LEO), turning it into a fast-evolving marketplace where companies compete and innovate at rapid speed.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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Over the course of his Chelsea career, Fernandez has utterly transformed his shot profile, nearly halving the average distance of his attempts.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Zhang, of Purdue, studies bioelectrical signaling in zebra fish, which develop striking extra-long tails when a certain ion channel is mutated.—
Elise Cutts,
Quanta Magazine,
12 Jan. 2026
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In subsequent analyses, Sankaran found that some of these mRNAs tend to derive from genes related to cell growth and, when mutated, are linked to cancers.—
Angus Chen,
STAT,
1 Jan. 2026
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