alchemize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of alchemize
Example Sentences
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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
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
I saw that ability to alchemize emotions and opinions when I covered the queen on her visit to Ireland in 2011, the first by a British monarch in a century.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2020
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
Times music columnist Suzy Esposito called Vasquez a “Cali post-punk torchbearer” who “faced his family traumas and alchemized the resulting pain” in the album.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
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
Even out of their tragedies, Mrs. Smith and her siblings alchemized lasting political impact.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2020
Perhaps, if Marvell, Herrick, Cowley, Prior, the now forgotten William Spencer, Tom Moore, Thackeray, could be alchemized into one, they might combine to yield an English Horace.
From Horace by Tuckwell, William
That man can play, alchemizing melody into a presence that brings together tribes from across time and space.
From Salon ● May 2, 2025
Ultimately, though, the author torques her contrarianism past trolling, past knee-jerk philosophizing and past satire, alchemizing a critique of literary culture in all its ideological waywardness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
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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