sublimate

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

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

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

There is nothing in medical books like it, except the pain that follows corrosive sublimate which burns the tissues.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Sir Walter Besant

He sublimates by focusing on new fabrication methods and by researching casting and molding techniques.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

With that said, I do think some surprising sensitivities within the conservative doctrine have come into view, as the movement sublimates into the uncomfortable posture of the establishment.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026

"Because Martian air is so thin and the temperatures so cold, water-ice snow sublimates, or becomes a gas, before it even touches the ground. Dry-ice snow actually does reach the ground," NASA's website states.

From Salon ● May 16, 2025

Hoss, whose quiet, sympathetic gaze can register even the subtlest shifts in emotional temperature, here sublimates her star persona in much the same way that Sharon represses her own needs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

It has been said, consumption sublimates the mind, stealing from the body, etherealizing and intensifying the intellect.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by William Henry Sparks

Like Kafka, Schulz sublimated the horrors that surrounded him into vivid allegories of the fantastic and the extraordinary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

The 12-foot-long cabinetlike work is the latest in the series that Peters calls “impossible monuments”: installations made out of disparate, significant materials that explore overlooked or sublimated matters of import.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

Materials are sublimated in a vacuum under heat supply, i.e. they are converted from a solid to a gaseous state and condense on the substrate surface.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024

Ellis-Taylor’s face becomes an epic poem of expertly sublimated frustration and ire.

From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2024

Both my father and my grandmother believed that Jagu’s and Rajesh’s mental illnesses had been precipitated—even caused, perhaps—by the apocalypse of Partition, its political trauma sublimated into their psychic trauma.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

In earlier work, she showed that sublimating CO2 ice can trigger debris flows that cut deep channels along crater walls.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025

Yet they have enough in common that one might think they could be friends: Each is frustrated with life, work, their domestic arrangements, their parents; depressed; and sublimating their anger except as regards the other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

Pfeiffer's Betty holds a softness in her strength while also sublimating a rage that magnificently roars to the surface the more Gerald's colleagues try to silence her.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2022

Having seen how images could be used for mass manipulation, Bernays proposed to maintain social order by sublimating individuals’ irrational impulses into capitalist consumption.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2018

“You’re just sublimating your own frustration with my income.”

From "Paper Towns" by John Green