sublime
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It was another reminder of Pogacar’s sublime talent but also his panache.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 27, 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 β Jul. 10, 2026
It’s a movie of sublime sentiment and spiritual richness, with Stewart its earnest, tender heart.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 24, 2026
Onstage as on your phone, Dylan was searching for new limits Wednesday — a lifer grinding toward the sublime.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 19, 2026
His sublime portraits are partly the product of his time with ravenous flies and rotting bodies.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Likewise, solid carbon dioxide does not melt at 1 atm pressure but instead sublimes to yield gaseous CO2.
From Textbooks β Feb. 14, 2019
The pentachloride sublimes when warmed and forms an equilibrium with the trichloride and chlorine when heated.
From Textbooks β Feb. 14, 2019
Dry ice does not melt to a liquid but sublimes directly from the solid state to vapor.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Sesquioxide of antimony melts easily, and sublimes as a white vapor.
Alloys of arsenic are converted into basic arseniates of metal oxides, while surplus arsenic is converted into arsenious acid, which sublimes on the tube.
Look ye that yon frail flower should be sublimed To fruit commensurate with all your power And cunning art?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various
V. Is it play, when his eyes wander innocent-wild And sublimed with a sadness unfitting a child?
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Then a greenish white solid sublimed, and this was found to be aluminic ethylate.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
This important fact attests the length of time during which chemical processes continue after eruptions, and how open fissures may be filled up laterally by mineral matter, sublimed from volcanic exhalations.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
It is not for those who symbolize divine things otherwise, who typify to their fellow-men the flesh crucified, the soul sublimed.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needless.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
I shall rise from the alembic a saint of their own subliming!
From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas
"I know what you want better than you do," he seems often to be saying to the metals he is calcining, separating, joining and subliming.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison
These piñas are then carefully weighed and put into a subliming furnace, Figs.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various
You ought to know, my son," he said, "that this subliming pot is called aludel.
From The Queen Pedauque by Stritzko, Jos. A. V.
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