sublimate
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It almost feels like some kind of test, where you are forced to sublimate your wishes and, perhaps, your self respect.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026
She’ll sublimate her own romantic heartache in urban renewal and other good works.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025
Rama says in a class she is teaching that the power of narrative is to sublimate reality.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2023
Halloween may be over, but if you ask me carving a gourd still seems like a good way to sublimate creeping dread.
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2022
Some women understand how to sublimate the transference, how to modify it until it attains a kind of fitness for existence; others manifest it in its original, crude and generally impossible form.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
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