rarefy
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Although these sculptures pay tribute to commercialism, they rarefy it to something austere — or at least as austere as anything with pulsing green lights can be.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2018
Of course it’s serious, and art is serious, but I’m not going to rarefy it.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2011
It contains moist air and a movable diaphragm or piston to rarefy it suddenly.
From Time Magazine Archive
But extend this vapour, rarefy it; from so narrow a room as our natural bodies, to any politic body, to a state.
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne
But as such means are not at disposal, it becomes necessary to place the terminal in a bulb and rarefy the air in the same.
From Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency by Nikola Tesla
She is aware that she’s had a rarefied career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
In the same way that regional brands like Shake Shack and In-N-Out have maintained cult followings for their novelty, Cane’s has no doubt benefited from the same kind of rarefied air.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Mr. Warsh’s panels are different because in the rarefied world of monetary policy, the study committee is the necessary political action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Were Chun to win this tournament, she would be in rarefied air with bookend victories separated by 11 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Corrections was, albeit in a rarefied macho way, a “people-skills” profession.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
After rarefying to 5,000 sequences per sample, a total of 307,572 unique sequences were contained in the 96 studies and 23,828 samples of the ‘QC-filtered’ Deblur 90-bp observation table.
From Nature ● Oct. 31, 2017
The first will represent the ocean, and the latter an island made hot by the rays of the sun, and rarefying the air above it.
From The Ocean and its Wonders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Good again! the hot-water plate represents the land rarefying the air over it.
From No Name by Wilkie Collins
And with regard to their balsamic and aromatic nature, these qualities warm the stomach and expel wind, by rarefying the flatuous exhalations from chyle in the prima viæ.
From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith
The porous condition of the bone, which is here shown, is a result of a rarefying or rarefactive ostitis.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
