consciousness
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If we are lucky enough to survive into our 20s, and have attained some degree of adult consciousness, we all will have lived a coming-of-age story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
The Holy Land is embedded in our consciousness, and “the proprietorial moral belief that we need to adjudicate for what happens in the Holy Land is very, very deep in the Western soul.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Such experiences do not necessarily prove that consciousness can exist independently of the brain.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
Attachment theory has exploded into the public consciousness.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Without regaining consciousness, Abraham Lincoln died the next morning.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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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
We attempted to be as objective as possible but were also aware that there are countless other exhibitions that, whatever their contributions to the culture at large, live on in individual consciousnesses.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
According to her, the woman portrayed as a trickster "sums up our modern fragmented, hyphenated identities and multiple consciousnesses".
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2022
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
These national and racial collective consciousnesses of to-day are things as vague, as fluctuating as mists or clouds, they melt, dissolve into one another, they coalesce, they split.
From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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