rarefy

Although these sculptures pay tribute to commercialism, they rarefy it to something austere — or at least as austere as anything with pulsing green lights can be.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2018

Of course it’s serious, and art is serious, but I’m not going to rarefy it.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2011

It contains moist air and a movable diaphragm or piston to rarefy it suddenly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Isn’t it a pity Edison can’t invent a machine to rarefy an overdone steak?”

From Paste Jewels by John Kendrick Bangs

Our condensers, which compress, cool, and rarefy air, enabling travellers to obtain water and even ice from the atmosphere, are great aids in desert exploration, removing absolutely the principal distress of the ancient caravan.

From A journey in other worlds A romance of the future by John Jacob Astor

If he wanted to join the rarefied air of the sons and daughters of The 400, he couldn’t be seen associated with anyone who would count as a mark against his judgment.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

Its 300 rarefied boutiques are where the high-end brand, known for its leather craftsmanship and status handbags, derives most of its sales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

In the same way that regional brands like Shake Shack and In-N-Out have maintained cult followings for their novelty, Cane’s has no doubt benefited from the same kind of rarefied air.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

There are good to very good players sprinkled around the team, but the collective is decidedly average, at best, in the rarefied air of a World Cup.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

The dating service asked Mr. Gallup to fill out a questionnaire. rarefied.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

After rarefying to 5,000 sequences per sample, a total of 307,572 unique sequences were contained in the 96 studies and 23,828 samples of the ‘QC-filtered’ Deblur 90-bp observation table.

From Nature ● Oct. 31, 2017

The porous condition of the bone, which is here shown, is a result of a rarefying or rarefactive ostitis.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks

Good again! the hot-water plate represents the land rarefying the air over it.

From No Name by Wilkie Collins

And with regard to their balsamic and aromatic nature, these qualities warm the stomach and expel wind, by rarefying the flatuous exhalations from chyle in the prima viæ.

From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith

These tubercles may be present in large numbers at the expense of the living tissue, and a rarefying ostitis is thus produced.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various