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 pulled him up, brushed him off and transitioned him into a life where he would sublimate his addictive impulses into steady work.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
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
Dexter, too, has taught himself to sublimate his more extreme impulses; the parallels can seem uncomfortably apt.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021
Of course the corrosive sublimate, if at all operative, had affected me through the medium of the circulation and not by direct contact.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
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