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Recent Examples of subconscious
This subconscious tendency—holding space for a future partner while resisting real relationships—sheds light on why some people, despite craving love, never fully step into it.
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
An intuitive understanding releases a pressure valve in your subconscious.
—USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
Banderas leans into comedy, playing his character and all of his character’s ancestors who torment his subconscious (a priest, a pilot, a prospector and a conquistador).
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 14 Feb. 2025
As the zodiac’s most imaginative archetype, Pisces is a portal to the subconscious realm and everything that can’t be explained with reason alone.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 13 Feb. 2025
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Mark Travers, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
An intuitive understanding releases a pressure valve in your subconscious.
—USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
Banderas leans into comedy, playing his character and all of his character’s ancestors who torment his subconscious (a priest, a pilot, a prospector and a conquistador).
—Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 14 Feb. 2025
As the zodiac’s most imaginative archetype, Pisces is a portal to the subconscious realm and everything that can’t be explained with reason alone.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subconscious
Adjective
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The actress was unconscious and unresponsive, according to the New York Police Department.—
Brie Stimson,
Fox News,
27 Feb. 2025
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This residual may stem from conscious or unconscious bias or other factors outside the scope of this research.—
Kweilin Ellingrud,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The two musicians recently traded subliminal messages across social media indicating that cheating may be an issue for one party.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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As in equine therapy, the connection between human and horse becomes more subliminal—not as a relationship based on domination, but one of mutual care and attunement.—
Essence,
Essence,
23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Lucas, however, wanted to combine the visceral feeling of high-speed World War II dogfights with the realism of 2001.—
Benny Har-Even,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Her knockout performance carries The Substance, propelled by visceral desperation, rage and cruel suffering.—
Scott Feinberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Engineered to deliver booming bass at all volume levels, the speaker sports dual 58mm tweeters, a 165mm bass driver, a bass reflex tube and BlueAnt’s signature psycho-acoustic bass.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Common triggers include dehydration from illness, vasovagal syncope—a reflex response to nausea or pain—abnormal heart rhythms, and heart valve conditions such as aortic stenosis.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Brown-rot fungi leave the lignin largely intact but release highly reactive molecules that break down the cellulose, leaving behind a brown, crumbly substrate.—
Katarina Zimmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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Their decision-making tends to be reactive, risk-averse and focused on short-term survival rather than long-term success.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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As the protagonist Ben in Night of the Living Dead (1968), Duane Jones unveiled a distinct facet of pre-conditioned Black martyrdom.—
Malik Peay,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2023
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Is the show of regret a conditioned response associated with receiving a less severe punishment?—
Charlotte Hu,
Discover Magazine,
31 July 2011
Adjective
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This behavior is an instinctive extension of the in-utero environment where constant proximity to the mother provided warmth, security and the steady rhythm of her heartbeat.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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With a guy that height who can move like that and is that instinctive, with those type of ball skills, those guys don’t come around every year.—
Chad Graff,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The clack-clack-clack of the spinning wheel and the announcing of the winning number tends to elicit a Pavlovian response from the audience.—
David Andreatta,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2025
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After a decade, my body reacts in a Pavlovian way to its stimuli, the scroll of torsos, the dopamine of a red dot notification, a three-toned beep that perks you up in your chair.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Subconscious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subconscious. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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