consciousness
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“Totoro is where my consciousness begins,” Miyazaki once said.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
However, while Aldi is rapidly ascending the ranks of American grocery consciousness, it is not, and may never aim to be, Walmart.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
"I lost consciousness for a moment. When I woke up, everything was dark...From then on, everything was uncertain."
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
With pictures of presidents, war, triumph and more, photographers have captured pivotal moments of our history and altered the country’s public consciousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
He felt the tension, the consciousness of what was happening, take over completely.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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“Alien: Earth” follows a group of children whose consciousnesses are transferred into synthetic adult bodies.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025
Plus, you have all of the 23 other consciousnesses that were on the severed floor that Dichen so beautifully lived out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
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
In 1918, Woolf’s own Hogarth Press published “Prelude,” Mansfield’s masterpiece about an uprooted New Zealand family, in which the point of view floats between the characters’ consciousnesses.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2021
If my mind could be led from these consciousnesses, I might be calm.'
From Tales of the Chesapeake by Townsend, George Alfred
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