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
“You have to sublimate your own ego to some extent.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2023
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
There is nothing in medical books like it, except the pain that follows corrosive sublimate which burns the tissues.
From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Besant, Walter, Sir
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