sublime
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Onstage as on your phone, Dylan was searching for new limits Wednesday — a lifer grinding toward the sublime.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026
Cox chipped to mid-wicket, the sublime Blundell brilliantly held a thick edge off Archer and Tongue was caught at mid-on to give Henry a seventh five-wicket haul in Tests.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026
This feast of gorgeous tunes fell prey to a clunky English translation by Edmund Tracey and unidiomatic conducting by Ramón Tebar, making it dull rather than sublime.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026
Nothing is more sublime than transitioning from Jimin’s penetrating vocals of “You know how we do!” on “2.0” directly to the deep reverberations of the ancient bell that soothe and reset.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
This, you must understand, Octavian, is the true and sublime end of discipline: that you may rise into a new and glorious buoyancy.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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