sublime
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However, the right-hander has made a sublime start to his one-day international career, averaging almost 59 from 17 matches.
From BBC β Oct. 15, 2026
Some of that same intimacy returned when he played a sublime encore, a movement from Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 5, with string players from the orchestra.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 12, 2026
Douglas Keeve’s sublime 1995 documentary, “Unzipped,” follows Mizrahi in the aftermath of a train wreck, piecing his reputation back together with his next collection, attempting to make something beautiful from the rubble.
From Salon β Sep. 5, 2026
Leonard is a sublime basketball player when he’s healthy enough to play, but he’s not a charismatic personality or a historically in-demand spokesperson.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 3, 2026
Few things are more sublime or characteristically human than the crossfertilization of cultures.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Likewise, solid carbon dioxide does not melt at 1 atm pressure but instead sublimes to yield gaseous CO2.
From Textbooks β Feb. 14, 2019
The pentachloride sublimes when warmed and forms an equilibrium with the trichloride and chlorine when heated.
From Textbooks β Feb. 14, 2019
Dry ice does not melt to a liquid but sublimes directly from the solid state to vapor.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is blue in colour and sublimes readily.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
Antimonious acid is infusible, produces a strong light, and is diminished in volume when heated in the external flame, during which time a dense white vapor sublimes upon the charcoal.
Look ye that yon frail flower should be sublimed To fruit commensurate with all your power And cunning art?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various
It is not for those who symbolize divine things otherwise, who typify to their fellow-men the flesh crucified, the soul sublimed.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
Corroded white lead, sublimed white lead, zinc oxide, and zinc lead are the standard white opaque pigments.
From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner
It was the philosophy of Plato, sublimed and harmonized by the political circumstances of the times.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
But no genuine science of astronomy was founded until the Greeks sublimed experience into theory.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
"I know what you want better than you do," he seems often to be saying to the metals he is calcining, separating, joining and subliming.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needless.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The naphtha removes mostly only the phenanthrene, but the carbazol can be removed only by pyridine, or by subliming or distilling the anthracene over caustic potash.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
That end will not be attained by our authors by subliming Religion into an emotion, and making an armistice with Science.
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon
You ought to know, my son," he said, "that this subliming pot is called aludel.
From The Queen Pedauque by Jos. A. V. Stritzko
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