subconscious

Example Sentences

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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

It makes more sense that the feeling of family promised by rock touring life would appeal to Charlie Brown; it often calls to creative dreamers and outcasts with a subconscious need to belong.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 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

I let my focus turn fuzzy and my subconscious emerge, searching for the break in the pattern.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu