alchemize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of alchemize
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“You help them alchemize or metabolize the emotional experience and then it becomes an experience in the past, where that feeling has been able to escape the body,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026
Fold that talent into any decent parody of mediocre psychological thrillers, and ideally all we’d have to do is sit back and watch everyone alchemize TV movie tin into gold medal foolishness.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2022
Indeed, when those elements alchemize — usually with the help of a gifted producer — they can become generational touchstones.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2021
The site also needs to alchemize the bespoke nature of the MLB, NHL, NBA, and NFL’s streaming apparatuses into a single service, which the owner says is a recurring challenge.
From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2021
An expert must be bold if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
To make my own, I alchemized a potpourri of sandalwood, hinoki wood, palo santo, mint, patchouli and tachibana orange.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
The Soft Moon, “Become the Lies” Cali post-punk torchbearer Luis Vasquez squarely faced his family traumas and alchemized the resulting pain into the Soft Moon’s steely 2022 LP, “Exister.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
But more time would not have alchemized the central elements that refuse to meld: the onstage fiction of Romeo and Juliet’s ruinous romance, and the offstage reality of two veteran actors’ devoted love.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
After all, when the source of our desperation or our resentment is alchemized into trippily comedic TV, how could it not be, well, tonally weird?
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2018
The stones they cast I caught And alchemized with thought Into such lumps of gold As dreaming misers hold.
From Fairies and Fusiliers by Robert Graves
That man can play, alchemizing melody into a presence that brings together tribes from across time and space.
From Salon ● May 2, 2025
With some distance from Saturn’s crucible, there’s the hope of alchemizing our discoveries into a more congruent self.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2024
It’s unfair to expect grievers to emerge from the depths of loss having mined diamonds of meaning, alchemizing their suffering into a form of self-improvement.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2022
Do movies distract from the lousiness of reality or try to redeem it, alchemizing its awfulness into beauty?
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
Their voices are both tools and canvases, wreaking havoc on the borders of melody and rhythm and alchemizing Auto-Tune into something radically human.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2015
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