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  • It's called transmutation.†  (source)
  • The obvious suggestions have been made—displace, transmute, dissemble.†  (source)
  • Now only a few of the older order remained, and they no longer even pretended to transmute metals ... ...but they could make wildfire.†  (source)
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  • He believed that metal could be transmuted into gold by mixing it with extract of urine.†  (source)
  • That the genetic quirk which allowed the transmutation had been lost......†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • By then, I think, he was transmuting anger into something that felt better, a dream of ending the disparities, at least the medical ones, that separated Boston and Cange.†  (source)
  • This was the backbone of his hypothesis that the virus was able to transmute itself from a biologically transmitted string of DNA into a set of behaviors.†  (source)
  • There is a shepherd—youth, a friend of mine, who transmutes them into something highly fascinating to my simplicity.†  (source)
  • As if in an economics class I had been ushered over into a column of transmutable commodities: the Murdered.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
  • We were the Church Fathers of waste in all its transmutations.†  (source)
  • But, as if in recognition of the colder fuel that drove her, "fiery" transmuted to "ruthless."†  (source)
  • It subdivided itself again and again—but from the very first stage, transmutation was occurring.†  (source)
  • To him she would unveil her soul's shy nakedness, to one who was but schooled in the discharging of a formal rite rather than to him, a priest of the eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.†  (source)
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