sublimate
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It almost feels like some kind of test, where you are forced to sublimate your wishes and, perhaps, your self respect.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026
“You’ve got to sublimate yourself, your ego, and yes, your identity. You must stand in front of the public and God and obliterate yourself.”
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025
This refusenik sensibility is threaded through the entire series, and any attempt by the characters to sublimate themselves to social norms fizzled quickly and often in grand fashion.
From New York Times • May 12, 2023
Gerwig is no less movingly misguided as Babette, who — like her husband, but through more extreme measures — tries to sublimate fears, both rational and irrational, of impending doom.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2022
Absorbent cotton covered with netting soaked in corrosive sublimate solution applied to external genitals during childbed period.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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