rarefy
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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 rarefy of the atmosphere continued to affect the wood-work of the wagons, and the wheels were incessantly falling to pieces.
From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville
Isn’t it a pity Edison can’t invent a machine to rarefy an overdone steak?”
From Paste Jewels by John Kendrick Bangs
On Friday, Trump will pay a visit to Zhongnanhai, a rarefied compound where China's leaders live and work.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
This week's reception promises to be just as grand, including a stop inside Zhongnanhai, the rarefied compound where China's top leadership lives and works.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
Samsung 005930 14.62%increase; green up pointing triangle Electronics has joined the rarefied air of companies valued at over a trillion dollars as its stock continued to be boosted by the boom in artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
“To be quite honest, we were not forecasting that this ETF would essentially be in rarefied air within 10 days,” said Dave Mazza, chief executive of boutique asset manager Roundhill Investments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
When I first arrived in Mqhekezweni I was regarded by some of my peers as a yokel who was hopelessly unequipped to exist in the rarefied atmosphere of the Great Place.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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
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
And with regard to their balsamic and aromatic nature, these qualities warm the stomach and expel wind, by rarefying the flatuous exhalations from chyle in the prima viæ.
From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith
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
