alchemize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of alchemize
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The singers, however, alchemize everything into the most hypnotic sound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2022
Fold that talent into any decent parody of mediocre psychological thrillers, and ideally all we'd have to do is sit back and watch all parties involved alchemize TV movie tin into gold medal foolishness.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 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
He took shelter in graduate programs that subsidized his music, which was alchemized from computer algorithms, music that was so shatteringly dissonant, it seemed almost a revolt against his agrarian origins.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2021
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
These give him his basic ideas which, alchemized in the wonderworking laboratory of his mind, produce some golden theories.
From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
And like the Bard, he makes his sources his own, alchemizing the material for novel ends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
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
Instead of cultivating the land for agriculture, land artists like Heizer physically altered the landscape into something with cultural value, alchemizing colonization into an art form and making it monumental.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2022
It’s been 50 years since Soft Machine released its first album alchemizing intrepid, jazz-influenced improvisation with rock ’n’ roll fantasy, thus creating something like a blueprint for progressive rock.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2018
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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