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
Rama says in a class she is teaching that the power of narrative is to sublimate reality.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2023
The other anagram of “Tár” is, of course, “ART,” and as real-life art monsters disappear from view, “Tár” offers up a work into which we can sublimate our own Schadenfreude and sympathy for abusers.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022
Mr. Adet has shewn, that this liquor bears the same relation to the common solution of tin, that corrosive sublimate does to calomel, and has given an ingenious solution of many of its properties.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
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