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With Philip particularly, he had transmuted the raw material of his life again and again in his fiction and that had affected his memory.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2021

Last week, however, scientists at the University of California announced that they had transmuted gold into mercury�and turned a scientific profit.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had transmuted carbon into radioactive nitro gen.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

She was amazed at herself, at the suddenness with which love had transmuted her, at the ease with which she adjusted herself to this new world.

From The Nest Builder by Hale, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson

The Abb� by his art had transmuted a wild infatuation, a foolish passion for a wanton into something above even the chivalry of the noblest lover of the Middle Ages.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton