alchemize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of alchemize
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She collects material from other places, too, like dirt from her daughter’s preschool yard or sand from local beaches — anything elemental that “will really alchemize and change form in the kiln.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Watching Dafoe alchemize an otherwise tedious subplot through sheer commitment to camp holds a specific, probably esoteric beauty that justifies his place in the film.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2024
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
Her first novel, 2018’s “#FashionVictim,” alchemized fashion satire and thriller tropes into an exciting hybrid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 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 William Tuckwell
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
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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