alchemizing

verb

present participle of alchemize
as in transforming
to change in form, appearance, or use time and fiction writers have alchemized these Wild West thugs into romantic heroes

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Recent Examples of alchemizing The film is really about alchemizing trauma and overcoming trauma. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Mar. 2026 The 40-year old multi-hyphenate creative has lived an abundant life in her four decades, which includes sculpting an enviable body from grit, alchemizing grief after losing her brother, father and mother a few years apart, and building a commendable career by embracing the uncomfortable. — Essence, 16 Jan. 2026 Few authors are better equipped to address these questions than the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard, who made a name for himself by alchemizing his private life into approximately 3,500 pages of literary voyeurism and stamping it with the name of Hitler’s manifesto. — Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alchemizing
  1. transforming
  2. converting
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  • New York — Artificial intelligence is a game-changing technology that’s already transforming how the world lives and works.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Playing a key role in that push is Qatar’s Ooredoo Group, which has been steadily transforming itself from a traditional telco into a digital infrastructure provider over the last three years.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of transforming
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  • The issue for the Heat is spacing, not necessarily 3-point shooting, of which the Heat have many players capable of converting.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
  • That’s converting a loss into an erasure, and erasures are much cheaper to correct than silent errors.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of converting

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