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a change in form, appearance, or use
a raven-haired starlet who underwent an attention-getting transformation and showed up at the awards ceremony as a blonde
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Recent Examples of transformations
The Adidas Samba‘s current reign has had a seemingly endless string of transformations, including a few with dressier elements.
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Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 11 Feb. 2026
When humans leave Earth’s gravitational pull, the brain undergoes a series of physical and functional transformations.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Feb. 2026
The backstory The family-run hotel, which has belonged to the Pizzininis since the 1940s, has gone through several transformations over time.
—Maddalena Fossati, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2026
As the race to find alternative cooling tech heats up, researchers are exploring climate-friendly options such as elastocaloric cooling, a solid-state tech that moves heat through reversible phase transformations.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2026
Yet the genre waxed and waned in popularity amid its many transformations; in The Atlantic alone, writers have repeatedly declared the rise, death, and revival of the Western.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
Or play with that trope with the other transformations.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2026
In New York, the state has completed one of the largest Medicaid transformations in its history, overhauling the home health care system precisely because of the accountability failures and fraud vulnerabilities now commanding national attention.
—Miki Kapoor, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
Hairstylist Chris Appleton, of course, who's been her go-to for voluminous hair transformations.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 3 Feb. 2026
Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 11 Feb. 2026
When humans leave Earth’s gravitational pull, the brain undergoes a series of physical and functional transformations.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Feb. 2026
The backstory The family-run hotel, which has belonged to the Pizzininis since the 1940s, has gone through several transformations over time.
—Maddalena Fossati, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2026
As the race to find alternative cooling tech heats up, researchers are exploring climate-friendly options such as elastocaloric cooling, a solid-state tech that moves heat through reversible phase transformations.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2026
Yet the genre waxed and waned in popularity amid its many transformations; in The Atlantic alone, writers have repeatedly declared the rise, death, and revival of the Western.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
Or play with that trope with the other transformations.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2026
In New York, the state has completed one of the largest Medicaid transformations in its history, overhauling the home health care system precisely because of the accountability failures and fraud vulnerabilities now commanding national attention.
—Miki Kapoor, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
Hairstylist Chris Appleton, of course, who's been her go-to for voluminous hair transformations.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 3 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transformations
Noun
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Office conversions to residential, especially in New York City, are also helping mitigate some of the distress.—
Diana Olick,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2026
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Construction of new apartments followed the wave of conversions downtown in the early 2000s, and the ordinance was expanded to a few other neighborhoods with older buildings, including Hollywood and Koreatown.—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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These tests allowed the team to examine how accurately the system could detect transitions from safe to unsafe contact in real time.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 Feb. 2026
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So far, the transitions have not gone smoothy.—
Jason Henry,
Daily News,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Transformations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transformations. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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