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Weinberg sometimes had the impression that Hammons was submerging his identity in Matta-Clark’s.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

I realize now I was submerging all my problems in the Beatles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just now it was submerging in an ocean of new emotion he was powerless to deny.

From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Cullum, Ridgwell

So Leo put down the Manicheans and preserved the unity of the faith, which was of immeasurable importance in the sea of anarchies which at that time was submerging all the traditions of the past.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity by Lord, John

It seemed; it truly seemed as if the tide of blue, grey, scarlet specks was submerging the enemy's strongholds.

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Hamilton, Ian, Sir