sublimate

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

Gerwig is no less movingly misguided as Babette, who — like her husband, but through more extreme measures — tries to sublimate fears, both rational and irrational, of impending doom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

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

Dexter, too, has taught himself to sublimate his more extreme impulses; the parallels can seem uncomfortably apt.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

Had fate Proposed bliss here should sublimate My being; had I signed the bond— Still one must lead some life beyond, —Have a bliss to die with, dim-descried.

From In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding by Various

He sublimates by focusing on new fabrication methods and by researching casting and molding techniques.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

With that said, I do think some surprising sensitivities within the conservative doctrine have come into view, as the movement sublimates into the uncomfortable posture of the establishment.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026

"Because Martian air is so thin and the temperatures so cold, water-ice snow sublimates, or becomes a gas, before it even touches the ground. Dry-ice snow actually does reach the ground," NASA's website states.

From Salon ● May 16, 2025

It’s as if the cold, otherworldly solitude of Yanji sublimates the characters’ unrequited desires into a deeper yearning for connection.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

Mercury and arsenic, as soon as they are reduced, are dissipated, while tellurium, bismuth, lead, antimony, cadmium, and zinc, are only partially volatilized, and, therefore, form sublimates on the charcoal.

From A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations by Anonymous

Like Kafka, Schulz sublimated the horrors that surrounded him into vivid allegories of the fantastic and the extraordinary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

The 12-foot-long cabinetlike work is the latest in the series that Peters calls “impossible monuments”: installations made out of disparate, significant materials that explore overlooked or sublimated matters of import.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

Materials are sublimated in a vacuum under heat supply, i.e. they are converted from a solid to a gaseous state and condense on the substrate surface.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024

Ellis-Taylor’s face becomes an epic poem of expertly sublimated frustration and ire.

From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2024

Our next workshop, no one understood what my sublimated love sonnet was all about, but Rudy's brought down the house.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

In earlier work, she showed that sublimating CO2 ice can trigger debris flows that cut deep channels along crater walls.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025

Yet they have enough in common that one might think they could be friends: Each is frustrated with life, work, their domestic arrangements, their parents; depressed; and sublimating their anger except as regards the other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

But previous work has shown that sublimating water ice alone couldn’t provide enough push to explain ’Oumuamua’s anomalous acceleration, so the authors of the new paper add an additional step.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 22, 2023

Her solution was to return to memories of landscapes, sublimating emotions and sensations into cascades of color and wash.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

“Yes. I’m busy sublimating my anxiety with sugar.”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold