preach to the converted
The converted Jews and Moors who remained in Spain were viewed with suspicion by the Inquisition.
The rebellion over welfare reform suggests that many party members are far from converted.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Changing
about-face
about-turn
alterable
altered
alternate
churn
disturb
make something into something
malleable
meta
metamorphose
modulate
morph
pervert
rollback
rotation
rotational
sanitization
semi-domesticated
transcribe

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Opinions, beliefs and points of view
Religious people: believers & non-believers

convertedadjective (SPORTS)

In some sports, when a try, free throw, or penalty shot is converted, extra points are scored after it: （某些体育项目中）附加得分的
Griffin's converted try sealed victory for his team.格里芬的附加得分尝试为球队赢得了胜利。

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Rugby
22 metre drop-out
advantage rule
All Blacks
ankle tap
attacking half
blind side
fifteen
hooker
jumper
knock
knock (something) on
loose forward
loosehead
match fit
prop
shirt pad
shoulder charge
Six Nations
squad rotation
tap penalty

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Winning, losing & scoring in sport

Examples of converted

converted
In the situation where oil palm is an option, following logging, the returns per hectare of forest converted are much superior to subsidized eco-forestry.
In this process, the energy absorbed by the electrons during the interaction with the laser pulse is converted into both radiation and ion kinetic energy.
Recent use of green oak springs from the realisation that fairly young trees offer a potential resource which can be converted to provide reasonable sections.
Once converted, any child the intermarried couple produces will suffer no degradation.
These statements can therefore be converted into algebraic constraint expressions.
A timed stream is easily converted to a finer time scale by inserting a certain number of ticks before each element.
Annual percentage interest rate data were converted into quarterly returns by dividing by 400.
To control for increases in the length of instructions as the presented sequences increased, word counts were converted to proportions (words uttered/words presented).
Action potentials were converted to pulses with 1-ms accuracy.
The machine units were converted into weather measurements in order to get a clear understanding of the range of weather activity.
During subsequent larval development these compounds are increasingly converted to other compounds required by older larvae and, later, adults and their offspring.
One of the farmers had already converted his cattle housing to one suited to organic animal husbandry before reaching a final decision.
Assuming that all of this leaf was converted 'legally ' into cigarettes and cigars (for home consumption only), an estimate of product consumption can be derived.
This precludes nativists from being ' converted ' to constructivism and vice versa.
At that time, the extensional regime was converted to compression.
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