as in transformed
to change in form, appearance, or use the novelist transubstantiated the joys and sorrows of his early years into a charming fable about childhood
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Recent Examples of transubstantiated Just as the heat of Trinity forged sand into glass, that same device (and all after it) transubstantiated myth into reality. —
Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
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Austin is the most liberal city in Texas but it’s also being transformed by tech money.— Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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Two years later, the midnight-movie adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show transformed it into a cultural phenomenon, fueled by raucous responses, scant costumes and a sense of communal anarchy.— Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
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Hungarians demonstrated that a moment of divisiveness can be converted into a moment of collective agency.— Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
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The oldest bookstore on our list, Baldwin’s Book Barn in western Pennsylvania, was built in 1822 as a farmhouse before William and Lilla Baldwin converted it into the permanent home of their then-roaming bookselling business in 1946.— Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
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