How to Use transmutation in a Sentence

transmutation

noun

• Now, maybe that’s the point, maybe the goal here is whiskey transmutation.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 26 June 2022
• After the war, a strange feat of transmutation took place.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2022
• Fire is this volatile thing that is hard to control, that is hypnotic, that is beautiful, that is both an agent of terror and an agent of transmutation.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• Dressed in robes of a prince and adorned in gold jewelry, the Bodhisattva expresses transmutation and power.
  — Liesl Bradner, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Listening back on two decades of indie-jam transmutation, the biggest question probably lies in the vastness of the sound itself.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• Some degree of transmutation is to be expected in a liberal republic such as the United States.
  — Mackubin Owens, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2021
• Not all of the matter in the source nuclei ends up in the product, with the remainder converted to energy and, in the case of the hydrogen-to-helium transmutation in fusion warheads, free neutrons.
  — Rupert Goodwins, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2017
• But isn’t the transmutation of dull, dense matter into something shining and precious a perfect metaphor for the writing process, and one that also happens to apply to the promise of California?
  — Steffie Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• Kumiko was a wonderful transmutation of movie myth, a tragic tale that had real pathos while still exulting in the surrealism of Kumiko’s quest.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 June 2018
• The literal transmutation of money into time: A Private Jet.
  — Charlton Pettus, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• This slippery-slope of transmutation provides new guardrails for how technology itself can become a new cult or religion, or at least a component of them.
  — Stan Stalnaker, Quartz, 9 Oct. 2019
• With the dawn of the atomic age in the 20th century, however, the transmutation of elements finally became possible.
  — John Matson, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2014
• If a transmutation is voided by the UVTA, the effect is that the property goes back to being community property and thus becomes available to the creditors of either spouse.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
• In both cases, an act of transmutation is performed, turning something dated into something chic.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
• Because really, why reserve an eye-color transmutation for the runway, or Halloween night?
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2019
• What The Walking Dead has done with the zombie genre, Colony was trying with dystopia, exploring the political microcosms and moral transmutations that evolve and persist in the face of seemingly never-ending apocalypse.
  — Devon Maloney, The Verge, 5 Aug. 2018
• Recent events illustrate that transmutation in the quest for diversity continues apace.
  — Mackubin Owens, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2021
• Faced with the bankruptcy trustee's collection efforts, John Sarkisian and his wife Bernadette entered into a transmutation agreement whereby Bernadette apparently ended up with the most valuable assets as her separate property.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
• Paquette, a theoretical physicist at the University of Washington, is not alone in thinking about this strange kind of dimensional transmutation.
  — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022
• Fifteen years later, after several transmutations, their weekend home is finally complete.
  — Judi Roaman, ELLE Decor, 21 Nov. 2019
• The essays establish the equal importance of his radical experiments in sound and his treatment of dialogue—or, more precisely, his transmutation of dialogue into a multilingual, semi-comprehensible musique concrète.
  — Geoffrey O’Brien, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• There's some mysterious transmutation that occurs listening to miserablist music.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 31 May 2017

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