Example Sentences

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But the sibling competition, however sublimated, was real.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

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

Our next workshop, no one understood what my sublimated love sonnet was all about, but Rudy's brought down the house.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez