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sublime

[suh-blahym] / sΙ™ΛˆblaΙͺm /


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It was another reminder of Pogacar’s sublime talent but also his panache.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

The run is also continuing his sublime form in longer-format matches - this win extending the streak to 28 successive wins in games with 20 or more legs.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

Other Stones records contain more classics and better production, but none holds together as well as a whole or comes as close to the sublime as this one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Its sublime sweeping curve is the terse expression of a complex thought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

He realized that it makes people feel good and powerful to feel a part of God, a part of the sublime.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

Likewise, solid carbon dioxide does not melt at 1 atm pressure but instead sublimes to yield gaseous CO2.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

The pentachloride sublimes when warmed and forms an equilibrium with the trichloride and chlorine when heated.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Dry ice does not melt to a liquid but sublimes directly from the solid state to vapor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Calomel is a white powder which sublimes at a low red heat; it is insoluble in water, alcohol and ether.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various

The fluoride, CrF3, results on passing hydrofluoric acid over the heated chloride, and sublimes in needles.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

Love does not cease to be love because it is sublimed to the quintessence of a self-denying passion.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds

They were not adapted to inspire her with cheerfulness, but they sublimed her sensations, and added an inexplicable fascination to sorrow.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown

We never left the ship until after the land wind came from the lofty heights to apprize us, perhaps, that we might risk a visit, without becoming sublimed in perspiration.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

His heart throbbed with bliss that was unendurable; sense and intellect and soul and spirit were, as it were, sublimed into one white flame of delight.

From The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen

It is manufactured by heating a mixture of mercurous sulphate and common salt in iron retorts, and condensing the sublimed calomel in brick chambers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various

That end will not be attained by our authors by subliming Religion into an emotion, and making an armistice with Science.

From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon

Nor here alone the virtue reign’d, By matter’s cumb’rous form detain’d, But thence, subliming, and refin’d, Aspir’d, and reach’d its kindred mind.

From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Edward Caldwell Moore

She herself says"—and poor Louisa's complaint grew into pathos under the subliming force of her advocate's sympathy—"that she would be like a widow, and worse than a widow.

From The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The subliming furnaces are ranged in a row, and communicate by lines of rails with the weigh-house.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various

On a commercial scale it is made by subliming a mixture of common salt and mercuric sulphate: 2NaCl + HgSO4 = HgCl2 + Na2SO4.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson




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