as in transforming
to take on a different shape, appearance, or state
When it emerged from its chrysalis, the caterpillar had morphed into a striking butterfly.
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Recent Examples of morphing
As the title, sort of, suggests, Adams plays a mother who begins morphing into a dog.
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Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
Helene grew disturbingly fast and Hurricane Milton even more so, morphing from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 180 miles per hour in a day.
—Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
Implications Le Grand's work on post-World War II British social policy found that perceptions of human motivations gradually transformed, with the prevailing view of the typical British citizenry morphing from knight into knave as the costs of maintaining an expensive welfare state increased.
—Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Yesterday’s demographic pyramid is morphing before Italian eyes into a demographic square.
—Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Notably, The Expanse features alien technology capable of morphing to achieve different functions.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2024
Saturday's explosion was just the latest in a season of flashbulb moments for the young franchise cornerstone, who's morphing into a superstar before our eyes.
—Sam Allard, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
Together, their inversion of Afro-Portuguese rhythms fill the mind with images of sweltering deserts, humid forests, and of course, the vibrating walls of the club, morphing and expanding ever outward into something new.
—Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024
And morphing back to McNEAL’s FACE.
—Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
Helene grew disturbingly fast and Hurricane Milton even more so, morphing from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 180 miles per hour in a day.
—Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
Implications Le Grand's work on post-World War II British social policy found that perceptions of human motivations gradually transformed, with the prevailing view of the typical British citizenry morphing from knight into knave as the costs of maintaining an expensive welfare state increased.
—Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Yesterday’s demographic pyramid is morphing before Italian eyes into a demographic square.
—Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Notably, The Expanse features alien technology capable of morphing to achieve different functions.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2024
Saturday's explosion was just the latest in a season of flashbulb moments for the young franchise cornerstone, who's morphing into a superstar before our eyes.
—Sam Allard, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
Together, their inversion of Afro-Portuguese rhythms fill the mind with images of sweltering deserts, humid forests, and of course, the vibrating walls of the club, morphing and expanding ever outward into something new.
—Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024
And morphing back to McNEAL’s FACE.
—Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Morphing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morphing. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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