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to change in form, appearance, or use
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Recent Examples of transformed
Austin is the most liberal city in Texas but it’s also being transformed by tech money.
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Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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
So, the whole industry transformed in front of our eyes and the locals won.
—Jamie Lincoln Kitman, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2026
The Hidden Forty is a limited-time seasonal bar that has transformed the Top of the Hyatt into a speakeasy with new art decor, a cocktail menu and food options.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Designed by architect Andreas Kriezis—who also transformed King Otto’s former palace into the Greek Parliament building on nearby Syntagma Square—it was commissioned by Dimitrios Kallimasiotis, a shipping magnate and politician, as his residence.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026
Green or brown lentils, simmered simply with aromatics and a rind, are transformed in the same way.
—Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 24 Apr. 2026
Airlines transformed their safety culture; why can’t hospitals?
—Joe Kiani, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
The site, hastily erected through no-bid contracts, transformed 6,000 acres of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport into a temporary tent detention center.
—Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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
So, the whole industry transformed in front of our eyes and the locals won.
—Jamie Lincoln Kitman, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2026
The Hidden Forty is a limited-time seasonal bar that has transformed the Top of the Hyatt into a speakeasy with new art decor, a cocktail menu and food options.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Designed by architect Andreas Kriezis—who also transformed King Otto’s former palace into the Greek Parliament building on nearby Syntagma Square—it was commissioned by Dimitrios Kallimasiotis, a shipping magnate and politician, as his residence.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026
Green or brown lentils, simmered simply with aromatics and a rind, are transformed in the same way.
—Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 24 Apr. 2026
Airlines transformed their safety culture; why can’t hospitals?
—Joe Kiani, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
The site, hastily erected through no-bid contracts, transformed 6,000 acres of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport into a temporary tent detention center.
—Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transformed
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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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The house next door to me could have been remodeled, and two ancient oaks could have been saved.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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The three-bedroom, two-bathroom house was originally built in 1947 and has since been remodeled.—
Joyce Chen,
Architectural Digest,
24 Apr. 2026
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The show that began as a bottom-up look at the cutthroat world of finance has metamorphosed into something more dismal.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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The pressure and heat of deep burial and tectonic events over eons have transformed the silt into a hard metamorphic rock, and the microbial carbon in it has metamorphosed into graphite.—
Howard Lee,
ArsTechnica,
11 Aug. 2025
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That chapter taught us that even our pain can be transmuted into power.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
30 Dec. 2025
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American narratives about racial prejudice, immigration, and injustice have been transmuted into the just-different-enough context of Catholic versus Protestant battle lines.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
27 Nov. 2025
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According to sources, Alchemised began as Dramione before being transfigured into a dark romantasy.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Transformed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transformed. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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