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consciousness

[kon-shuhs-nis] / ˈkɒn ʃəs nɪs /


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One of the runners who went to hospital told local news outlet KEYT-TV that they had lost consciousness and could not remember parts of the race.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

And in those final moments, before they lost consciousness, Bas witnessed his parents' closeness.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

It was only natural that the experience of internment should intensify the artists’ consciousness of their Japanese identity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Perhaps the most significant implication of the research concerns a longstanding question in psychedelic medicine: Are hallucinations and altered states of consciousness necessary for the brain changes that might contribute to therapeutic benefits?

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

Ben just walked and with all his powers of concentration rising to the surface of consciousness, of being alive, and of being son, Ben tried not to cry.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Plus, you have all of the 23 other consciousnesses that were on the severed floor that Dichen so beautifully lived out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025

In the other central conceit of “Pure Colour,” Mira and her father are paired as dual consciousnesses in a leaf, which functions as an extended metaphor for the interconnected entrapment of grief.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022

In 1918, Woolf’s own Hogarth Press published “Prelude,” Mansfield’s masterpiece about an uprooted New Zealand family, in which the point of view floats between the characters’ consciousnesses.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2021

Ladd says she's received a message that needs to be shared from "higher dimensional consciousnesses," what she refers to as the "Galactic Federation of Light."

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2021

As for the appearance of an interval between the object and subject consciousnesses, this is an illusion, like the appearance of two moons when there is only one.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Madhava Acharya


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