sublime
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The run is also continuing his sublime form in longer-format matches - this win extending the streak to 28 successive wins in games with 20 or more legs.
From BBC β Jul. 25, 2026
Kerr didn't just break it, he smashed it by nearly half a second, running a simply sublime three minutes 42.66 seconds.
From BBC β Jul. 22, 2026
Its sublime sweeping curve is the terse expression of a complex thought.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 27, 2026
“And for us, the most sublime moments in life are when we’re doing something artistic, whether that’s painting, drawing or sculpting. And stop-motion animation combines all of that.”
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 15, 2026
Several times he catches her regarding him in a similar manner, and the moments when she holds his eyes with hers are sublime.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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The pentachloride sublimes when warmed and forms an equilibrium with the trichloride and chlorine when heated.
From Textbooks β Feb. 14, 2019
Likewise, solid carbon dioxide does not melt at 1 atm pressure but instead sublimes to yield gaseous CO2.
From Textbooks β Feb. 14, 2019
Dry ice does not melt to a liquid but sublimes directly from the solid state to vapor.
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If the human calculus be distilled, it yields a volatile alkali, and something sublimes from it which has a sourish taste, and therefore called the acid of the calculus.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
By a high temperature, and with little access of air, metallic tellurium sublimes with the deposition of a grey powder.
Poor Titmouse's doubts, hopes, and fears, were rapidly being sublimed into a reverence for Gammon....
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel
Hydrochloric acid and sulphuretted hydrogen are likewise plentiful, together with many other substances which, sublimed by the high internal temperature, take a solid form on cooling at the surface.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
This important fact attests the length of time during which chemical processes continue after eruptions, and how open fissures may be filled up laterally by mineral matter, sublimed from volcanic exhalations.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
The delicate paleness of her cheeks, the glance that was sublimed into the sweetest melancholy, made me tremble with unspeakable pleasure.
From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various
It is not for those who symbolize divine things otherwise, who typify to their fellow-men the flesh crucified, the soul sublimed.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
"I know what you want better than you do," he seems often to be saying to the metals he is calcining, separating, joining and subliming.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison
But I believe he is chiefly meditating on the purging and subliming of what he has already done: and repents that he has published at all yet.
From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Parsons, Eugene
She herself says"—and poor Louisa's complaint grew into pathos under the subliming force of her advocate's sympathy—"that she would be like a widow, and worse than a widow.
From The Perpetual Curate by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needless.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
The subliming the mercury is, however, a process injurious to the health.
From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel
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