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consciousness

[kon-shuhs-nis] / ˈkɒn ʃəs nɪs /


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What elevates Mellencamp’s song is the dual consciousness in his raspy vocal: the nagging belief in a dream that, like everything else, “just kind of came and went.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

“Society opened up and everyone started speaking out in public about Taiwanese consciousness, rallying behind a Taiwanese identity—and boom, it was established,” Lin said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Instead, the findings suggest that very different experiences may sometimes engage overlapping brain processes associated with altered states of consciousness.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

The campaign was part of the reason the case "never properly left the public consciousness", according to Oxford West and Abingdon MP Layla Moran.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

My consciousness begins to spread through my surroundings once more … and I cringe.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

“Alien: Earth” follows a group of children whose consciousnesses are transferred into synthetic adult bodies.

From Salon Dec. 14, 2025

Their brains have been surgically altered, dividing their work life and home life into separate consciousnesses which are described by the company as “innies” and “outies.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2025

In this inventively loopy sci-fi thriller, employees at that shadowy firm undergo a brain procedure that splits their work and home selves into two separate consciousnesses.

From New York Times Dec. 1, 2022

According to her, the woman portrayed as a trickster "sums up our modern fragmented, hyphenated identities and multiple consciousnesses".

From BBC Jun. 20, 2022

The first seat of our primal consciousnesses the solar plexus, the great nerve-center situated behind the stomach.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence




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