rise above
verbDefinitions
To ignore petty or trivial issues and do what one is supposed to
To ignore petty or trivial issues and do what one is supposed to; to act better than someone or something inappropriate.
- We must rise above ourselves. We must rise above what it means to be human. We must rise above what our ordinary consciousness inspires us to do. We must rise above our needs, our self-interest, our greed, our hunger.
To prevent something unfortunate or traumatic from affecting oneself.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for rise above. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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