sublime
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Djokovic's movement is still sublime, his shots still potent, but his body has not always held up.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Its sublime sweeping curve is the terse expression of a complex thought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Onstage as on your phone, Dylan was searching for new limits Wednesday — a lifer grinding toward the sublime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Nothing is more sublime than transitioning from Jimin’s penetrating vocals of “You know how we do!” on “2.0” directly to the deep reverberations of the ancient bell that soothe and reset.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
Something else emerges in Mozart, though, beyond the sublime melodies, that Haydn’s music does not anticipate.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Likewise, solid carbon dioxide does not melt at 1 atm pressure but instead sublimes to yield gaseous CO2.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
The pentachloride sublimes when warmed and forms an equilibrium with the trichloride and chlorine when heated.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Dry ice does not melt to a liquid but sublimes directly from the solid state to vapor.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He loves the monks as great dreamers, as the chercheurs de chimères sublimes, but he cannot help them, cannot defend what they possess, for behind them already stand their heirs.
From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan
It crystallizes in plates, having a camphor-like smell, melting at 79-80� C. and boiling at 189-191� C. It is easily soluble in alcohol, ether and benzene, and sublimes slowly at ordinary temperature.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
For further purification, it may be sublimed, after having been previously mixed with a little powdered charcoal, or it may be mixed with a small quantity of iodine and heated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
They were not adapted to inspire her with cheerfulness, but they sublimed her sensations, and added an inexplicable fascination to sorrow.
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
Collect the sublimed matter, put it again into the sand-bath, and sublime a second time; this process must be repeated five times.
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)
Religion has clothed this essential feature in a hundred mythologies and eschatologies, and one has always given place to another, the more sublimed to the more robust.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
How many common men have not female society and the fervour of youthful passion sublimed into poets!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
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 Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis
Oh, yea, the Sun in one subliming rise From Wisdom's infinite mind!
From Freedom, Truth and Beauty by Doyle, Edward
The naphtha removes mostly only the phenanthrene, but the carbazol can be removed only by pyridine, or by subliming or distilling the anthracene over caustic potash.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
They were constantly distilling, incinerating, subliming, heating, in order that the spirit, or inner kernel of things, might be obtained.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison
You ought to know, my son," he said, "that this subliming pot is called aludel.
From The Queen Pedauque by Stritzko, Jos. A. V.
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