subconscious

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"If we tell ourselves that the machine will do it for us, we never make the mistakes that allow us to access our subconscious" where true creativity lies, he said.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

The shift in attitude hasn’t been firmly diagrammed; instead, what’s going on here is mostly subconscious, like a collective unlocking of forbidden territory.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

Words and situations reverberate across the generations as these women and girls, who are members of the same family line, feel them, and wonder about them, in some subconscious way.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

It just created this real, almost, like, subconscious intimacy because it’s the mother tongue.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

It was as if my subconscious was speaking to me about everything that I kept penned up inside of me.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers