sublimation
Example Sentences
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This is often cited as a critique of her generation, but, man, I found it refreshing, especially in light of the careful sublimations and apologies I’d learned to make over the years.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2019
All the conjured fears, in my read, are but more sublimations of this, the unconjured one, the one we ought to be talking about but cannot.
From Salon • Jan. 19, 2016
As action-filled as Nolan’s films are, they can sometimes feel abstract, like symbolic sublimations of some offscreen mental trauma.
From The Verge • Oct. 27, 2014
Molyneux's favorite colors sounded like sublimations: butter yellow, burnt orange, light mustard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the sublimations turn first yellow, then green, and more rarely azure.
From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Palmieri, Luigi
Vocabulary lists containing sublimation
Earth Science - Middle School
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Structure and Properties of Matter - Middle School
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The Water Cycle - Middle School and High School
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