Example Sentences

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Book after book, the famous alchemist Paulo Coelho has transmuted leaden cliches into publishing gold.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2020

The gender dysphoria she felt before her transition has transmuted into “a real, chronic paranoia”.

From The Guardian • Nov. 10, 2020

Unwilling to share his workplace humiliation, he has told her that his injury came when his car was rear-ended; he too has transmuted his rage into self-loathing.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2016

Leap second critics say this once reasonable, even elegant, hack has transmuted into an expensive problem at best, and quite possibly a ticking time bomb.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2015

Is it not a miracle that she has transmuted, by a change more amazing than anything Master Ovid hath recorded in his Metamorphoses, a villanous old land-devil and sea-devil like myself into a passionate partisan?

From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)