transmutation

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Recent Examples of transmutation The transmutation favored the Liberals for three big reasons. David Frum, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2025 That's right, this is a big moment of transition, transmutation, and transformation. Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 24 Apr. 2025 This realignment will catalyze the transmutation of negative thought patterns into a higher state of cognitive resonance, thereby enabling the manifestation of your innermost desires through the law of quantum attraction. Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025 Williams compares his project to sampling, riffing on DeCarava’s work as an act of transmutation. Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for transmutation
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Noun
  • Overall, the report shows that climate change continues to have a profound impact on the Great Lakes region, bringing more extreme weather, changes to fish and wildlife, and subtle but profound economic transformation.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 26 July 2025
  • Special teams debut Few groups experienced such a remarkable transformation from spring camp to preseason camp as the special teams unit.
    Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • In 2014—a year before Vik’s first commercial wine, a 2010 vintage of its eponymous flagship blend, entered the market—VIK Chile opened its doors, completing Vik’s metamorphosis into a world-class escape.
    Alexandra Kirkman, Fortune, 22 July 2025
  • Unlike other marine life, many species of squid don’t go through a major metamorphosis, and their physical changes The length of the paralarval stage depends on the species, and there are more than 300 species of squid.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • Genetic testing helps identify underlying mutations or abnormalities in genes.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 29 July 2025
  • The algae and the slug may have managed some kind of gene transfer, and over time, produced a new way of living, thanks not to slow, stepwise evolution—the random mutation within a body—but by the wholesale transfer of a piece of code.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 23 July 2025

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“Transmutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transmutation. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.

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