rarefy

Although these sculptures pay tribute to commercialism, they rarefy it to something austere — or at least as austere as anything with pulsing green lights can be.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2018

Of course it’s serious, and art is serious, but I’m not going to rarefy it.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2011

It contains moist air and a movable diaphragm or piston to rarefy it suddenly.

From Time Magazine Archive

The markings, always spots and specks, the largest never exceeding 0·1 inch in diameter, are invariably most numerous towards the large end, where they are sometimes, though rarefy, slightly confluent.

From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Allan Octavian Hume

But as such means are not at disposal, it becomes necessary to place the terminal in the bulb and rarefy the air in the same.

From The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin

In the same way that regional brands like Shake Shack and In-N-Out have maintained cult followings for their novelty, Cane’s has no doubt benefited from the same kind of rarefied air.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

His mental adjustment on how to react to failure, combined with a conditioning program that led him to lose 10 pounds and become faster and stronger, created a spring environment sending him into rarefied air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

Were Chun to win this tournament, she would be in rarefied air with bookend victories separated by 11 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

On Friday, Trump will pay a visit to Zhongnanhai, a rarefied compound where China's leaders live and work.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

After rarefying to 5,000 sequences per sample, a total of 307,572 unique sequences were contained in the 96 studies and 23,828 samples of the ‘QC-filtered’ Deblur 90-bp observation table.

From Nature ● Oct. 31, 2017

And here, it is proper to add, that all aromatics, by rarefying the blood, are cordial.

From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith

Funnels for clearing ships' holds of foul air, on the principle of the rarefying power of heat.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

These tubercles may be present in large numbers at the expense of the living tissue, and a rarefying ostitis is thus produced.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various

The first will represent the ocean, and the latter an island made hot by the rays of the sun, and rarefying the air above it.

From The Ocean and its Wonders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne