inner voice
Example Sentences
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Wow, this thing is dead quiet, I thought; and why is my inner voice shouting?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
"As someone who's been questioning whether marriage is really right for me, this book made me tune into my inner voice," one reader wrote online.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
"This reversal of the normal suppression effect suggests that the brain's prediction mechanism may be disrupted in people currently experiencing auditory hallucinations, which may cause their own inner voice to be misinterpreted as external speech."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2026
Wednesday’s inner voice answers, “When the sun explodes and the Earth is consumed in a molten apocalypse.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
Problem was, my inner voice resembled Chicken Little: it was screaming that I was about to die, but it did that almost every time I laced up my climbing boots.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
