alchemize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of alchemize
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Ultimately, genetics and talent establish the ceiling, but the evidence suggests a supportive sibling ecosystem helps alchemize raw potential into greatness, and the sibling that benefits most is the one that comes later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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
But farce is a universal language, and the hilarity is not just translated but alchemized into something riotously contemporary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025
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 give him his basic ideas which, alchemized in the wonderworking laboratory of his mind, produce some golden theories.
From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
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
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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