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sensation

[sen-sey-shuhn] / sɛnˈseɪ ʃən /




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She shakes out our hair on the euphoric Good For The Soul, and throws shapes to the filtered grooves of Love Sensation, external.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2026

Perhaps no bumper sticker accomplishes what Evans describes better than, “Keep Honking! I’m Listening to Alice Coltrane’s 1971 Meteoric Sensation ‘Universal Consciousness.’”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2025

“Chronic itching causes chronic inflammation,” says Brian Kim, director of the Mark Lebwohl Center for Neuroinflammation and Sensation at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2023

The George C. Wolfe meta-show “Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed,” which had a brief but acclaimed Broadway run in 2016, may provide a possible direction.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2021

It is a bad Sensation, it is a v. bad Sensation & I move my Arm but it doth not give over.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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