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sublime

[suh-blahym] / sΙ™ΛˆblaΙͺm /


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Bonus: my car smelled sublime — minty and fresh — the entire way home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The run is also continuing his sublime form in longer-format matches - this win extending the streak to 29 successive wins in games with 20 or more legs.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 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

It’s a movie of sublime sentiment and spiritual richness, with Stewart its earnest, tender heart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Was she calling me beautiful or boogieful, beautiful or sublime .

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

It sublimes in thin plates of a dark colour and metallic lustre, and is soluble in solutions of the caustic alkalis.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various

Religion has clothed this essential feature in a hundred mythologies and eschatologies, and one has always given place to another, the more sublimed to the more robust.

From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto

The corroded white lead was somewhat whiter than the sublimed white lead, but a careful observation of the surface of the corroded lead revealed deep checking.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

This early design embodying Blake’s favourite conception was destined to be enlarged and sublimed into one of the most magnificent inventions of Christian Art.

From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Irene Langridge

It is sublimed and sacrificed on the altar of holy passion.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton

Above all, his virtues are the virtues which have been sublimed by Christianity—as it were, the cold embers of morality warmed into religion.

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

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

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

From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

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

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

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

The subliming furnaces are ranged in a row, and communicate by lines of rails with the weigh-house.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various




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