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Migrating from music to acting, a handful of talents such as Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez and Dwight Yoakam have transfigured their medium from melody to melodrama.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024

In the years since her death, accounts of Ms. Senesh’s ordeal and the publication of her diaries and poetry have transfigured her into a sterling figure of Jewish resistance.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2011

Celebrated or cursed, the Interstates still evoke sublime feelings about the technological forces that, over five decades, have transfigured American lives.

From Time Magazine Archive

He appeared to have transfigured himself— but badly.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

She would have been transfigured by her shining thoughts if any thing could have transfigured her, but no thoughts however bright could pierce through that sad body.

From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von