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
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
Even out of their tragedies, Mrs. Smith and her siblings alchemized lasting political impact.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2020
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, however much they may have once belonged to medieval tradition, have been alchemized by the imagination of the poet of the Renaissance.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
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
Childhood has a way of alchemizing disparate information into wonder, and the association of snakes and mythology redoubled and complicated my devotion to both.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2020
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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