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consciousness

[kon-shuhs-nis] / ˈkɒn ʃəs nɪs /


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The film is fearless and fallible and fabulous all at once, designed to expand the consciousness and open the heart.

From Salon Aug. 28, 2026

Scientists widely agree that organoids are not capable of consciousness or other higher-order brain functions.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

The department was unable to confirm whether the person was in fact unconscious when they arrived at the scene or whether the person lost consciousness on the roller coaster.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

“Society opened up and everyone started speaking out in public about Taiwanese consciousness, rallying behind a Taiwanese identity—and boom, it was established,” Lin said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Isolated victories can be won—even a string of victories—but in the absence of a fundamental shift in public consciousness, the system as a whole will remain intact.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

“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

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

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

How could a predicate become associated with its subject, or a principal clause with its subordinate clause, if they were in separate consciousnesses, and how could the conclusion be drawn from them?

From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto




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