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 pulled him up, brushed him off and transitioned him into a life where he would sublimate his addictive impulses into steady work.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
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
Structures not unlike these have been artificially induced by exposure to particular lights, and also by painting spots with dilute corrosive sublimate, indicating that poisons may impel the epidermis cells to grow out abnormally.
From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall
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