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sublime

[suh-blahym] / səˈblaɪm /


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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

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

At its best, the restaurant drama can be sublime, possibly the best thing on TV; but the past two seasons have felt like a wasted opportunity, with the story largely spinning its wheels.

From MarketWatch May 31, 2026

Several times he catches her regarding him in a similar manner, and the moments when she holds his eyes with hers are sublime.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

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

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

It melts at about 800�, but sublimes at a lower temperature.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various

The might of one fair face sublimes my love, For it hath weaned my heart from low desires.

From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

These are vessels of stone or porcelain ware, which adjust to each other over a cucurbit containing the sulphur to be sublimed.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine

Some of the color tests included the priming of boards with white lead, zinc oxide, sublimed white lead, lithopone, and other single pigment paints.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Gardner, Henry A.

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

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 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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 Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

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

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

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

The succinic acid is drawn from amber by sublimation in a gentle heat, and rises in a concrete form into the neck of the subliming vessel.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine

Oh, yea, the Sun in one subliming rise From Wisdom's infinite mind!

From Freedom, Truth and Beauty by Doyle, Edward

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

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas




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