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transmutations

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plural of transmutation

as in transformations

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Superlong Cher has undergone many hair transformations over the years.

— Lorena Meouchi, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2026
The technique’s definition is slippery, spanning actors’ deep character study, extreme physical transformations and staying in character for months; some performers reject the label or the practice.

— Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

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This Pulitzer-winning neo-slave narrative reimagines the Underground Railroad as a real subterranean network, in a Sisyphean allegory that illustrates the relentless metamorphoses of white supremacy and Black resistance.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 July 2026
His fingerprints are all over the 21st-century Big Inventive Novel, with its sentient raindrops (Elif Shafak), its melodramatic families (Kiran Desai), its metamorphoses of race (Mohsin Hamid) and history (Marlon James).

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025

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