sublimation
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This extreme cooling halted further sublimation and helped maintain the pristine surface.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
But for Kusama, art wasn’t a path chosen for fame and fortune; art was a sublimation and a salve for her compulsive tendencies and psychotic episodes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
In many ways, the film was a sublimation of the career-long anxieties of its director/co-writer, Billy Wilder, and co-star Swanson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025
But the quality of her performance depends on how deeply she can sink into the role, and Nikki will do anything — consciously or otherwise — to achieve utter sublimation, and, in turn, total perfection.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2025
He wanted to stir up something that the whole shifgrethor-pattern was a refinement upon, a sublimation of.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing sublimation
Earth Science - Middle School
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Structure and Properties of Matter - Middle School
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The Water Cycle - Middle School and High School
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