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sublimation

[suhb-luh-mey-shuhn] / ˌsʌb ləˈmeɪ ʃən /




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In many ways, the film was a sublimation of the career-long anxieties of its director/co-writer, Billy Wilder, and co-star Swanson.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

But the quality of her performance depends on how deeply she can sink into the role, and Nikki will do anything — consciously or otherwise — to achieve utter sublimation, and, in turn, total perfection.

From Salon • Jan. 25, 2025

As several COMs, including those detected in the solid phase in this research, were previously detected in the warm gas phase, it is now believed that they originate from the sublimation of ices.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024

How about a righteous female cop who takes her cases a little too personally, going so far as to endanger herself as a sublimation of the dissatisfaction in her domestic life?

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024

Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychiatry, conceived of art primarily in terms of sublimation outside of consciousness.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson




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