alchemize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of alchemize
Example Sentences
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I used to think of myself, in my journalism, as somebody who could alchemize people’s worst stuff and not be affected by it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
The anthology series also highlights the genius Franklin demonstrated as a child, evident in what Park explained was her ability to "alchemize her pain into sonic gold as a little girl."
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 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
He wasn’t a miracle worker, able to levitate the undead or alchemize a lump.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 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
Which 17th-century female artist fought her way into the male-dominated art world, prevailed in a rape trial and alchemized her struggles into revolutionary art?
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024
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
Even out of their tragedies, Mrs. Smith and her siblings alchemized lasting political impact.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2020
These give him his basic ideas which, alchemized in the wonderworking laboratory of his mind, produce some golden theories.
From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
And like the Bard, he makes his sources his own, alchemizing the material for novel ends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
That man can play, alchemizing melody into a presence that brings together tribes from across time and space.
From Salon ● May 2, 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
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
Instead, they feel more like hastily tossed off exercises in fantasy and whimsy, which lift from and allude to myriad earlier works of art without alchemizing them into something new.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2015
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