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
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
But more time would not have alchemized the central elements that refuse to meld: the onstage fiction of Romeo and Juliet’s ruinous romance, and the offstage reality of two veteran actors’ devoted love.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
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
The most tragic situation has here again been alchemized by Luini's magic into a pure idyl, without the loss of power, without the sacrifice of edification.
From New Italian sketches by Symonds, John Addington
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
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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