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consciousness

[kon-shuhs-nis] / ˈkɒn ʃəs nɪs /


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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

“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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