sublime
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However, the right-hander has made a sublime start to his one-day international career, averaging almost 59 from 17 matches.
From BBC β Oct. 15, 2026
But the business was viable, the staff was talented and reliable, and the work we made together would, often enough, touch something close to the sublime.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 3, 2026
Douglas Keeve’s sublime 1995 documentary, “Unzipped,” follows Mizrahi in the aftermath of a train wreck, piecing his reputation back together with his next collection, attempting to make something beautiful from the rubble.
From Salon β Sep. 5, 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 β Jul. 26, 2026
Although I was sleeping on the bare earth, I felt cocooned in the sublime rest I had been granted.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Upon charcoal, and in the flame of reduction, the bead intumesces, the cadmium oxide becomes reduced to metal; this becomes volatilized and re-oxidized, and sublimes upon the charcoal as the yellow cadmium oxide.
Know you what it is when anguish, with apocalyptic NEVER, To a Pythian height dilates you, and despair sublimes to power?
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poor Titmouse's doubts, hopes, and fears, were rapidly being sublimed into a reverence for Gammon....
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
We never left the ship until after the land wind came from the lofty heights to apprize us, perhaps, that we might risk a visit, without becoming sublimed in perspiration.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
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 Octavius Brooks Frothingham
Hydrochloric acid and sulphuretted hydrogen are likewise plentiful, together with many other substances which, sublimed by the high internal temperature, take a solid form on cooling at the surface.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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 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
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
The subliming the mercury is, however, a process injurious to the health.
From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young
You ought to know, my son," he said, "that this subliming pot is called aludel.
From The Queen Pedauque by Jos. A. V. Stritzko
They were constantly distilling, incinerating, subliming, heating, in order that the spirit, or inner kernel of things, might be obtained.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
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