Verb (used with object), : to alchemize lead into gold.    From Dictionary.com. 

Precious few can alchemize that headline into non-news gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [In News Ratings Game, Giant Yap Closes the Gap] Reference

What a great event, and we're very proud to be a part of it at alchemize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Spencer Threatens White Flight From OTR] Reference

I use my camera to alchemize bad moods into good ones, or at least decent, non-sucky ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beth Lapides: 4 Ways Your Camera Can Help You be Happier] Reference

So as not to be soiled by substances that alchemize to produce laughter in the human species.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best American Poetry 2010] Reference

On our yoga mat, we alchemize all these things, we open to them and then use them to our advantage, turn them into blessings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: Anusara Yoga - Becoming a Standing Mudra of the Heart] Reference

I said that perhaps his gifts as an artist would allow him to alchemize the pain of his divorce into music that would heal himself and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [EVENING’S EMPIRE] Reference

"Oh, yes, indeed! the very finest, the most delicate, a kind of aërial perfume; they must of course alchemize the air into which they waste their fibres with some sweetness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference

During my nine years in Shanghai, I have learned how to sell Nikes to mainland teenagers (avoid U. S.-style brash rebellion) and HSBC Premier accounts to the nouveau riche (alchemize superior service into status projection).    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Doctoroff: Democracy in China: They Just Say No] Reference

The cornerstone of her recent attempts to alchemize the dross of her tattered campaign into nomination gold is the seating of the delegations from the discredited and discounted Florida and Michigan primaries, even if it means trashing the Constitution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chip Collis: Five Reasons To Reject The Clinton MI Plan] Reference

Our TV screens play endless loops of talking heads, and our desks and bedsides are piled high with non-fiction profferings on the presidential horserace, the urgent policies and laws we need Congress to enact, the corporate media we must reform, the uprisings we hope to alchemize into social movements, and all manner of journalistic accounts of the tragic legacy Dubya leaves behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jennifer Nix: Resurrecting Literature: Sustenance for the Progressive Soul] Reference

Well, the technique of braising meat, if mastered, will allow you to alchemize tough.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Best Thai snacks: Snacking is a way of life in Thailand and these nibbles are cheap] Reference

You feel the autodidact trying to measure up, to alchemize his hard-earned experience and knowledge into fiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

It wasn't because he wanted to improve his draft status; he knew full well he was not going to magically alchemize into a top-three pick.    From Wordnik.com.  [SI.com] Reference

And the secret of braising's ability to alchemize chewy cuts into succulence lies in the connective tissue found in well-muscled cuts of meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modesto Bee: Front] Reference

Ted Kennedy took his brothers 'violent deaths and tried to alchemize something positive out of them, something more than the powerful symbolism of their loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines] Reference

It’s hard to imagine a bleaker domestic landscape, but what makes the trilogy so extraordinary and pleasurable to read is how beautifully Mr.St. Aubyn writes, his acidic humor, his stiletto-sharp observational skills, and his ability to alchemize these gifts into one quotable, Oscar Wildean bon mot after another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Satirist���s Keen Talent Targets Motherhood Gone Badly Wrong] Reference

A typical workday at the Commonwealth followed an asymmetrical arc, beginning with the morning scramble, which ended promptly at 10:30 or thereabout how well you could afford to slip something through at 10:47 or 11:03 was dependent entirely upon the mood and graces of Karen Freeman, the paper’s news editor and unsung workhorse, who coordinated all of the articles and photographs and cutlines and wire copy and somehow managed to alchemize it all into a daily newspaper, whereupon the newsroom would plunge into a state of decompression, in which it might very well languish for the rest of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confederacy of Silence] Reference