transmutation

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Recent Examples of transmutation A little less than a decade later, Gao recognized the same transmutation in Maslany’s She-Hulk audition. ELLE, 17 Aug. 2022 One of the most famous stories of nuclear transmutation comes from the 1970s, when nuclear chemist and Nobel laureate Glenn Seaborg worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory alongside colleague Walt Loveland and then-graduate student Dave Morrissey. Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2021 Their appointments all but ensure not only a conservative majority on the Court for years to come but also the transmutation of Scalia’s jurisprudence—based on the principles of judicial restraint, originalism, and textualism—from an outsider legal theory into a mainstream constitutional doctrine. Noah Feldman, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020 Transplantation of many forms from one intact society to another results in modest but discernible transmutation. Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2011 See All Example Sentences for transmutation
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Noun
  • In 2017, Shannon was the focus of her own WEtv show Mama June: From Not to Hot, which followed her dramatic weight loss transformation.
    McKinley Franklin, People.com, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The depictions of the Penitent Magdalene are no less striking for their transformation over time, through each artist’s imagination—or for beginning with the wrong Mary.
    Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • However, the most dramatic metamorphosis has come from Wes Moore, the governor.
    Yuripzy Morgan, Baltimore Sun, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The ideological metamorphoses Vargas Llosa went through are not so uncommon these days: from the left to the right and vice versa, from peaceful discourse to revolutionary rhetoric, from a democratic stand to the belief in a centralized power and back.
    Ilan Stavans, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Some of the beasts may have developed frightening mutations.
    Jack Smart, People.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • In 2007 Hazen collaborated with Szostak to write a computer simulation (opens a new tab) involving algorithms that evolve via mutations.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Transmutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transmutation. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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