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Recent Examples of transmutation
Their appointments all but ensure not only a conservative majority on the Court for years to come but also the transmutation of Scalia’s jurisprudence—based on the principles of judicial restraint, originalism, and textualism—from an outsider legal theory into a mainstream constitutional doctrine.
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Noah Feldman, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020
Transplantation of many forms from one intact society to another results in modest but discernible transmutation.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2011
Tracing the fate of cast-off celluloid and equipment, Samay enters a surreal zone of industrial demolition and transmutation — a striking wordless sequence that, like the film as a whole, conveys disappointment and struggle with a deft touch.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2022
It’s when those words are set to music and dramatized by a singer of skill and sympathy that the magical transmutation occurs.
—Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
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Noah Feldman, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020
Transplantation of many forms from one intact society to another results in modest but discernible transmutation.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2011
Tracing the fate of cast-off celluloid and equipment, Samay enters a surreal zone of industrial demolition and transmutation — a striking wordless sequence that, like the film as a whole, conveys disappointment and struggle with a deft touch.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2022
It’s when those words are set to music and dramatized by a singer of skill and sympathy that the magical transmutation occurs.
—Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transmutation
Noun
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Some key gender-swap choice aside, Blichfeldt hews closely to the shape of the original Grimm Brothers story in ways that, however inevitable, can’t escape predictability as Elvira undergoes transformations for the big ball.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2025
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Disneyland’s Napa Rose celebrates 20 years of bringing wine center stage The Napa Rose transformation will extend to the menu while maintaining the 1,500-label wine collection.—
Brady MacDonald,
Orange County Register,
24 Jan. 2025
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Turning external pressures into brutal obsessions is a metamorphosis as visceral as that of a younger self bursting forth from your back.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
8 Jan. 2025
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This visceral metamorphosis, which haunts the pages of her memoir Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within (2007; English translation 2011), transmutes nature’s most fundamental symbol of maternal sustenance into a potent metaphor for creative anxiety born of postpartum despair.—
Fidan Cheikosman,
JSTOR Daily,
1 Jan. 2025
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According to evolutionary molecular biologist Henry Niman, in each case, there is a signature mutation on one segment of the virus — a switch at position 52 on the NP protein — in both the food samples and dead animals, providing an unmistakable link between them.—
Susanne Rust,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Experts have warned that the possibility of mutations in the virus could enable person-to-person transmission.—
Melissa Rudy,
Fox News,
12 Jan. 2025
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“Transmutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transmutation. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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