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Like Kafka, Schulz sublimated the horrors that surrounded him into vivid allegories of the fantastic and the extraordinary.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The 12-foot-long cabinetlike work is the latest in the series that Peters calls “impossible monuments”: installations made out of disparate, significant materials that explore overlooked or sublimated matters of import.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2024

This could be the anthem animating the subconscious of Black Twitter, one of sublimated and disaffected affections .

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2024

Materials are sublimated in a vacuum under heat supply, i.e. they are converted from a solid to a gaseous state and condense on the substrate surface.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2024

It seemed, for the most part, that he sublimated his anger towards Henry into his dealings with the rest of the world.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt