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
She’ll sublimate her own romantic heartache in urban renewal and other good works.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025
The other anagram of “Tár” is, of course, “ART,” and as real-life art monsters disappear from view, “Tár” offers up a work into which we can sublimate our own Schadenfreude and sympathy for abusers.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022
Halloween may be over, but if you ask me carving a gourd still seems like a good way to sublimate creeping dread.
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2022
Kyanise, kī′an-īz, v.t. to preserve from dry-rot by injecting corrosive sublimate into the pores of the wood.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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