sublime
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The run is also continuing his sublime form in longer-format matches - this win extending the streak to 28 successive wins in games with 20 or more legs.
From BBC β Jul. 25, 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 β Jul. 10, 2026
Having taken a bathroom break before the second set, a re-energised Gauff returned with more aggression, and she eventually found a way past Muchova on her ninth break point with a sublime cross-court backhand winner.
From BBC β Jul. 9, 2026
Its sublime sweeping curve is the terse expression of a complex thought.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 27, 2026
Was she calling me beautiful or boogieful, beautiful or sublime .
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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The pentachloride sublimes when warmed and forms an equilibrium with the trichloride and chlorine when heated.
From Textbooks β Feb. 14, 2019
Likewise, solid carbon dioxide does not melt at 1 atm pressure but instead sublimes to yield gaseous CO2.
From Textbooks β Feb. 14, 2019
Dry ice does not melt to a liquid but sublimes directly from the solid state to vapor.
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By this method of distillation the arsenic sublimes into the receiver, leaving a residue of iron sulphide in the retort.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
If the human calculus be distilled, it yields a volatile alkali, and something sublimes from it which has a sourish taste, and therefore called the acid of the calculus.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
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
And each bystander of them all Could criticise, and quote tradition How depths of blue sublimed some pall —To get which, pricked a king's ambition; Worth sceptre, crown and ball.
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald
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 Otto, Rudolf
But no genuine science of astronomy was founded until the Greeks sublimed experience into theory.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
The sublimed white lead was in fair condition, with very little checking, and offering a fair repainting surface.
From Paint Technology and Tests by Gardner, Henry A.
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 McPherson, William
Her powers were maturing, and nobler sentiments were subliming the first heats and rude experiments.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Fuller, Margaret
But I believe he is chiefly meditating on the purging and subliming of what he has already done: and repents that he has published at all yet.
From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Parsons, Eugene
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 Burgon, John William
"I know what you want better than you do," he seems often to be saying to the metals he is calcining, separating, joining and subliming.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison
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