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sublime

[suh-blahym] / sΙ™ΛˆblaΙͺm /


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It was another reminder of Pogacar’s sublime talent but also his panache.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

In return, he left us a sublime body of work, one that languished in astonishing critical neglect until the mid-19th and early-20th centuries, the result of a dwindling taste for monastic and devotional art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Kerr didn't just break it, he smashed it by nearly half a second, running a simply sublime three minutes 42.66 seconds.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Other Stones records contain more classics and better production, but none holds together as well as a whole or comes as close to the sublime as this one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

His sublime portraits are partly the product of his time with ravenous flies and rotting bodies.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

The pentachloride sublimes when warmed and forms an equilibrium with the trichloride and chlorine when heated.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Likewise, solid carbon dioxide does not melt at 1 atm pressure but instead sublimes to yield gaseous CO2.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Dry ice does not melt to a liquid but sublimes directly from the solid state to vapor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rare kindliness of the man so hallows and sublimes his memory that we half forget his artistic power, his purity of touch, his keenness of observation, his delightful and abounding humor.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various

In ignition tube it sublimes, giving arsenical ring.

From The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis by Frederick Hutton Getman

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

V. Is it play, when his eyes wander innocent-wild And sublimed with a sadness unfitting a child?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sometimes one does not see the given beauty at first, and then he has the pleasure of puzzling it out; sometimes he never sees it, and then his life is sublimed with an insoluble conundrum.

From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

Graphite is usually mixed with other pigments, such as red lead and sublimed blue lead, thus serving better as a paint coating.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

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

A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needless.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

The subliming the mercury is, however, a process injurious to the health.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young

I shall rise from the alembic a saint of their own subliming!

From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

Her powers were maturing, and nobler sentiments were subliming the first heats and rude experiments.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Margaret Fuller

On a commercial scale it is made by subliming a mixture of common salt and mercuric sulphate: 2NaCl + HgSO4 = HgCl2 + Na2SO4.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson




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