How to Use transposition in a Sentence

transposition

noun
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  • Smith was also born with transposition of the great arteries and had the Mustard procedure surgery as an infant.
    — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 25 Dec. 2019
  • But what’s happening is not a simple transposition of pre-isolation life into the weird new now.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
  • Aristocrats unable to fight off ghoulish modern upstarts was the transposition of the tragedy Jünger believed was taking place in his own time.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
  • Then came transposition and docking, the tricky maneuver wherein the command module pilot turned the spacecraft around, docked with the lunar module, and pulled it out of its adapter.
    — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017
  • It’s the visual equivalent of a musical transposition, and music matters a great deal to Davies.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
  • But in someone with transposition of the great arteries, these blood vessels are switched: The aorta comes off the right ventricle — which lacks oxygenated blood — to the rest of the body, and the pulmonary artery comes off the left ventricle.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2017
  • Williams got through the season and summer session in Storrs before undergoing an ulnar nerve transposition and scope in the back of her elbow on July 8.
    — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • This week: Write an original Q-A joke featuring a spoonerism, the transposition of the beginnings of different words, as in the entries above from our 1995 contest.
    — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Doolin had a minor operation last fall — an ulnar nerve transposition — to relieve pain that was building in his arm.
    — Dave Melton, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2021
  • Gardenhire said the soreness is not related to the ulnar transposition surgery from last summer.
    — George Sipple, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2018
  • There is a sensory transposition occurring—from eyes to ears, or vice versa—with the opportunity for all kinds of vital data to drop off or get lost in the process.
    — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The unit hosts a simple set of control buttons on the rear for transposition, and the entire head of the tuner rotates a full 360 degrees to allow for flexible placement and easy visibility.
    — Julian Vittorio, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The transposition of a single line works as an amplification, not a refutation.
    — Rod Smith, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The Captain may suffer from his transposition to a new format, but the camera’s all-seeing eye also allows these peripheral figures greater depth.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
  • And in the two seasons since — outside of a lost final month of the 2017 season, which Fulmer spent rehabilitating from ulnar nerve transposition surgery — Fulmer has emerged as one of the top young pitchers in baseball.
    — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2018
  • The painful consequence of that will be a clunky, suboptimal transposition of the physical to the virtual, right down—one fears—to an awkward videoconference cocktail hour.
    — Jonathan Becker, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2020
  • With this minor transposition of circumstances, True West is a story of a meth (or opioid) zombie, who has come to extract a sacrifice from his more prosperous sibling.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
  • Fulmer, 24, has performed like a front-line pitcher in his first two seasons in the Major Leagues but is rehabilitating from ulnar nerve transposition surgery in his right elbow.
    — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2017
  • So Monet’s transposition of the empirical world into colored light can also be seen in the context of Buddhist ideas about the interconnectedness of all things.
    — Washington Post, 7 July 2022
  • This arch, bold, and tender transposition of elements of the Nativity to the cramped secular life of a high-school student in current-day Paris is as much of an emotional wonder as a conceptual one.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Balmain fine jewelry is the transposition of the maison ethos, iconic designs, and singular savoir faire into bold jewelry lines.
    — Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 July 2022
  • After transposition, the ulnar nerve no longer experiences the same tension and constriction when patients flex their elbow.
    — Tj Gibson, azcentral, 9 May 2018
  • After augmenting the software a bit to incorporate transposition options, AZDecrypt got to work, and soon yielded its first breakthroughs.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2024
  • In his essay, Carne-Ross, who has no Wikipedia page but warrants a bronze statue in the cultural commons, kicks things off by planting a flag, offering up the term transposition as another conception of what translators might do.
    — Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • How to Solve the Code To solve part four, Dunin and other cryptologists have tried every method at their disposal, from polyalphabetic substitution to transposition.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Greene has had two major surgeries — elbow ligament reconstruction and ulnar nerve transposition — and has suffered from blister issues in the past.
    — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2018
  • On Saturday the Russian artist sang in the original keys – that is, without evident transpositions – and his bright, reedy tenor sailed sweetly and without strain over Bicket’s chamber orchestra, which was playing at modern pitch.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The Tigers’ best pitcher, right-hander Michael Fulmer, recently underwent ulnar nerve transposition surgery.
    — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2017
  • There’s spare, Constructivist logic and familial integrity at the heart of this sculptural idea—as well as sweet satisfaction in the recognition of the interrelatedness and transposition of top and bottom, inside and outside.
    — Lance Esplund, WSJ, 15 May 2021
  • But a blood test detected an abnormality, leading doctors to diagnose the baby with a rare but serious congenital heart defect called transposition of the great arteries, or TGA.
    — Mark Joyella, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021

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