sublimate

Example Sentences

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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

This refusenik sensibility is threaded through the entire series, and any attempt by the characters to sublimate themselves to social norms fizzled quickly and often in grand fashion.

From New York Times • May 12, 2023

“You have to sublimate your own ego to some extent.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2023

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

Some women understand how to sublimate the transference, how to modify it until it attains a kind of fitness for existence; others manifest it in its original, crude and generally impossible form.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund