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sublimation

[suhb-luh-mey-shuhn] / ˌsʌb ləˈmeɪ ʃən /




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In many ways, the film was a sublimation of the career-long anxieties of its director/co-writer, Billy Wilder, and co-star Swanson.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

Readers will understandably recoil at the musician’s callousness, especially given Mintz’s sublimation of himself in the service of Lennon and Ono.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2024

Once the sample has been fully solidified, the solid solvent is removed by sublimation during lyophilization.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024

But when one approaches the inner solar system, sunlight turns some of a comet’s ice into gas in a process called sublimation, forming a fuzzy, glowing cloud called a coma.

From Scientific American • Jun. 26, 2023

“I’ve gained pounds lying continuously in bed, seeking surcease and sublimation in food. Now we must run. I must leave this house. It has terrible associations.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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