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noun

transformation

CEFR B1

a qualitative change

In a sentence

Six example sentences with transformation, each labelled with its topic.

  • The transformation of the grain silo into apartments kept the concrete shell but replaced everything behind it.

    Architecture

  • Two years of patient training produced a transformation in his posture that his physiotherapist called almost structural.

    Fitness

  • Her transformation from session guitarist to bandleader surprised nobody who had watched her rewrite the horn arrangements.

    Music

  • The region's transformation from coal mining to software took thirty years and two generations of retraining.

    Economics

  • Her transformation after the therapy was not louder confidence but a quiet willingness to say no without explaining.

    Psychology

  • The transformation of the quarry into a wetland brought back herons within three years of the pumps switching off.

    Environment

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