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  • verb Present participle of sublimate.

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Examples

  • Moreover,by telling its suffering with these terms, which reminds us of Christ's, the speaker is "sublimating" its experience.

    Confession 2004

  • When we take the energy of those impulses and channel them into something healthy or constructive, or even something that just isn’t harmful, that’s called sublimating.

    Black Pain Terrie M. Williams 2008

  • When we take the energy of those impulses and channel them into something healthy or constructive, or even something that just isn’t harmful, that’s called sublimating.

    Black Pain Terrie M. Williams 2008

  • When we take the energy of those impulses and channel them into something healthy or constructive, or even something that just isn’t harmful, that’s called sublimating.

    Black Pain Terrie M. Williams 2008

  • When we take the energy of those impulses and channel them into something healthy or constructive, or even something that just isn’t harmful, that’s called sublimating.

    Black Pain Terrie M. Williams 2008

  • The snow is "sublimating," through a process that is similar to evaporation.

    Madison.com - top 2010

  • His ambiguity was a virtue; ditto his skill at sublimating the political issues that fascinate him into compelling stories about intimate relationships between human beings.

    Culture Maxine 2009

  • Talos refrained from mentioning his lack of an Asimov circuit, consciously sublimating the need to explain his past before the child.

    NaNoWriMo: The Lucky H « The Graveyard 2009

  • What is important to me is that if they have convictions, that they follow those convictions, and that they're not cowed into sublimating them because they're afraid of career repercussions.

    Gregory Weinkauf: Chimes of Freedom: Artists Talk Amnesty Gregory Weinkauf 2012

  • After sublimating their right-leaning social agenda in favor of a jobs agenda to wrest control from the Democrats in the midterms, they are picking up where they left off.

    After 'forcible rape,' another abortion restriction Jonathan Capehart 2011

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