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
“You’ve got to sublimate yourself, your ego, and yes, your identity. You must stand in front of the public and God and obliterate yourself.”
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025
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
B. Dissolved a quantity of the powdered sublimate in nitric acid; it effected a ready solution, with violent effervescence.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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