conscious
Example Sentences
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As patients are placed under conscious sedation an anaesthetist isn't required.
From BBC
Logan expressed optimism that inflation will decline further toward the Fed’s 2% target this year, but said she remains conscious of risks that progress could stall.
Overwhelming evidence from subsequent investigations - including a second set of inquests in 2016 - found many victims were conscious at least half an hour later.
From BBC
Hypocrisy is the more-or-less conscious habit of saying one thing and doing another; projection is the mostly unconscious process of displacing one’s own unacceptable intentions onto other people’s presumed desires.
From Salon
Mr. Polito thereby gives us a poet who isn’t “just a blazing, mercurial, ingenious reviser of his own words and melodies but also a conscious, sly, artist.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
