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sensation

[sen-sey-shuhn] / sɛnˈseɪ ʃən /




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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

“A New Sensation of Sheer Loveliness Glorifies The Screen!” trumpeted this version’s original trailer.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2019

Thus our simple Ideas are clear, when they are such as the Objects themselves, from whence they were taken, did, in a well-ordered Sensation or Perception, present them…

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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